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Ed Miliband's support: 73 MPs, 6 MEPs, 151 CLPs, 6 TUs, 3 SSocs". Labour List. 17 May 2010. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010 . Retrieved 20 October 2010. Go Big’s origins lie in Miliband’s podcast series, a post-2015 challenge that’s allowed academics and activists, campaigners, and politicians of all stripes to share their insights on all manner of subjects with the wider public. He was sceptical when the idea was suggested but the bite-sized approach has worked, and the aim of the book is “to paint a wider picture of the kind of society we need” and an in-depth analysis of how it might be brought into being. Ed Miliband 'pleased' with local election results". BBC News. 3 May 2013. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013 . Retrieved 3 May 2013.

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Miliband says Labour 'will not forget' Bradford loss". BBC News. 12 April 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012 . Retrieved 13 April 2012. European Elections: UKIP Tops British Polls". Sky News. 28 April 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014 . Retrieved 28 April 2015. Vidal, John; Jowit, Juliette (24 April 2009). "Ed Miliband promises new era of clean coal– but who will pay?". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009. Instead of a laissez-faire system where companies told government what they wanted to build and where, government has decided that reducing climate change emissions cannot be left to the market.Despite opinion polls leading up to the general election predicting a tight result, Labour decisively lost the 7 May general election to the Conservatives. Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably. After being returned as MP for Doncaster North, Miliband stated that it had been a "difficult and disappointing" night for Labour. [107] [108] [109] Following David Cameron's success in forming a majority government, Miliband resigned as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May, with Harriet Harman becoming acting leader while a leadership election was initiated. [110] [111] Jeremy Corbyn succeeded Miliband as leader.

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What we have seen from the UK government is the actions of a group of people caught in the headlights,” he will say. AV referendum: Labour 'no' camp wrong, says Miliband". BBC News Online. 16 March 2011. Archived from the original on 18 March 2011. Miliband campaigned in the Scottish independence referendum with the cross-party Better Together campaign, supporting Scotland's membership of the United Kingdom. Opinion polls showed solid leads for the 'no' campaign, with a 20 point-lead on 19 August. However, by the end of the month, the lead had fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters. Miliband made an unplanned visit to Lanarkshire to draw a contrast between a Labour and Conservative future for Scotland within the UK. [73] A poll on 7 September showed a 2-point lead for the 'yes' campaign, leading to a joint commitment by Miliband, Cameron and Clegg for greater devolution to Scotland through a version of home rule. [74] The results on 19 September showed victory for the 'no' campaign, 55.3% to 44.7%. [75] Alan Johnson 'to quit front-line politics' ". BBC News Online. 20 January 2011. Archived from the original on 21 January 2011. Election results: Conservatives win majority". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015 . Retrieved 29 July 2015.Work begins on new manifesto". BBC News Channel. 15 July 2007. Archived from the original on 21 October 2007 . Retrieved 11 September 2011. This self-awareness – acceptance of the geek persona – is one of the ways in which defeat in 2015 has given Miliband a clearer voice. Even in the sterile environment of a Zoom call he comes across as more relaxed, more comfortable in his skin than he did as leader, when political caution sometimes seemed to stuff his mouth with cotton wool. (“That’s a good description of what it was like,” he replies when I offer the metaphor.) It is a recognised Westminster catch-22: sometimes the natural style that is required for success is only unleashed by failure.

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Mulholland, Hélène (9 June 2010). "Who are the Labour leadership candidates?". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013 . Retrieved 5 October 2012. Election Live – 30 March". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 28 April 2015. Labour 'Wants Payday Lenders Off High Street' ". Sky News. 8 April 2013. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013 . Retrieved 8 April 2013. His departure ushered in, ultimately, the Jeremy Corbyn years – a disastrous period for the Labour party. Has the hard left been vanquished? How united is the party now? “I think it’s pretty united. I have this joke about the Labour party. Most people say: let’s bury our differences. We say: let’s bury our similarities.” His argument is that while Corbyn was a bolder version of himself, other things – major things – also contributed to his election as leader: the financial crisis, Brexit, tuition fees; above all, the feeling on the part of many Labour voters that they had been left behind. As Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 11 May 2010 to 8 October 2010. As Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero from 29 November 2021 to 4 September 2023In 1994, when Harriet Harman was moved by the newly elected Labour Leader Tony Blair to become Shadow Secretary of State for Employment, Miliband stayed on in the Shadow Treasury team and was promoted to work for Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown. [17] In 1995, with encouragement from Gordon Brown, Miliband took time out from his job to study at the London School of Economics, where he obtained a master's degree in Economics. [13] After Labour's 1997 landslide victory, Miliband was appointed as a special adviser to Chancellor Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2002. [18] Harvard [ edit ] Following the death of former Prime Minister and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher in 2013, Miliband spoke in a House of Commons sitting specially convened to pay tributes to her. He noted that, although he disagreed with a few of her policies, he respected "what her death means to the many, many people who admired her". He also said that Thatcher "broke the mould" in everything she had achieved in her life, and that she had had the ability to "overcome every obstacle in her path". [155] He had previously praised Thatcher shortly before the Labour Party Conference in September 2012 for creating an "era of aspiration" in the 1980s. [156] Nelson, Fraser (26 July 2002). "Brown confirms adviser's sojourn in Harvard". The Scotsman (Edinburgh). p. 9. In conversation with... Harriet Harman". Total Politics. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013 . Retrieved 2 October 2012. Pidd, Helen (8 March 2015). "The marginal seats that swung the wrong way for Labour". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 August 2015 . Retrieved 29 July 2015.