The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP | |
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
Assumed office 2020 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Theresa May |
Leader of the Labour Party | |
Assumed office 2010 | |
Preceded by | Gordon Brown |
Leader of the Opposition | |
In office 2010–2020 | |
Preceded by | Harriet Harman |
Succeeded by | Theresa May |
Member of Parliament for Doncaster North | |
Assumed office 2005 | |
Preceded by | Kevin Hughes |
Personal details | |
Born | Edward Samuel Miliband 24 December, 1969 Fitzrovia, London |
Political party | Labour Party |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford London School of Economics |
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister since 2020. A member of Parliament for Donacster North since 2005, Mliband has been Leader of the Opposition since 2010, previously having served in Gordon Brown's Cabinet between 2007 to 2010.
Miliband was born in London, before Miliband graduating from Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics, after which he became 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.
After Labour was defeated in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as leader and in September 2010, Miliband was elected Leader of the Labour Party. Miliband's tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies and opposition to the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector. Whilst the Conservatives remained the largest party in 2015, and Labour lost two seats, due to the fall in seats held by the Liberal Democrats, the coalition government fell, leading to the Conservatives forming a minority government. Whilst Miliband attempted to force a vote of no confidence against the government, the SNP controversially abstained, both refusing to take part in such a vote, as well as stating that they would not actively work against the incumbent government from 2015, "so long as they continued to act in good faith".
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