The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP |
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Leader of the Opposition | |||
In office 25 September 2010 – 8 May 2015 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||
Prime Minister | David Cameron | ||
Preceded by | Harriet Harman | ||
Succeeded by | Harriet Harman | ||
Leader of the Labour Party | |||
In office 25 September 2010 – 8 May 2015 |
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Deputy | Harriet Harman | ||
Preceded by | Gordon Brown | ||
Succeeded by | Jeremy Corbyn | ||
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |||
In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 |
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Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) | ||
Preceded by | Greg Clark | ||
Succeeded by | Meg Hillier | ||
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |||
In office 3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||
Preceded by | Position established | ||
Succeeded by | Chris Huhne | ||
Minister for the Cabinet Office Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008 |
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Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||
Preceded by | Hilary Armstrong | ||
Succeeded by | Liam Byrne | ||
Minister for the Third Sector | |||
In office 6 May 2006 – 28 June 2007 |
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Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
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Preceded by | Phil Woolas | ||
Succeeded by | Phil Hope | ||
Member of Parliament for Doncaster North |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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Preceded by | Kevin Hughes | ||
Majority | 11,780 (29.8%) | ||
Personal details | |||
Born |
Edward Samuel Miliband 24 December 1969 Fitzrovia, London, England, UK |
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Political party | Labour | ||
Spouse(s) | Justine Thornton (m. 2011) | ||
Children | 2 | ||
Alma mater |
Corpus Christi College, Oxford London School of Economics |
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Religion | Jewish atheism | ||
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Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband PC, MP (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He and his brother, David Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband graduated from Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics, becoming first a television journalist, a Labour Party researcher and a visiting scholar at Harvard University before rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.
Miliband was elected to parliament in 2005. Prime Minister Tony Blair made Miliband Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office in May 2006 and when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, he appointed Miliband Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Miliband was subsequently promoted to the new post of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a position he held from 2008 to 2010.