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His elder brother, David Miliband, still owns the house as of 2010. The family lived on Edis Street in Primrose Hill, London. His father, Ralph Miliband, was a Belgian-born Polish Jewish Marxist academic whose father fled with him to England during the Second World War. His mother, Marion Kozak, a human rights campaigner and early CND member, is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust thanks to being protected by Catholic Poles. 3.5 2015 general election and resignationīorn in University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, Miliband is the younger son of immigrant parents.On 6 April 2020, new Labour leader Keir Starmer appointed Miliband Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, succeeding Rebecca Long-Bailey. He was succeeded after a leadership election by Jeremy Corbyn. Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband resigned as leader on. He led his party into several elections, including the 2014 European Parliament election. Miliband also abolished the electoral college system to elect the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party, and replaced it with a " one member, one vote" system in 2014. His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies under the " One Nation Labour" branding, and by opposition to the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector. 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.Īfter the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, he appointed Miliband Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Prime Minister Tony Blair made Miliband Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office in May 2006. Miliband was elected to the House of Commons in 2005. Miliband became first a television journalist, then 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. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and later from the London School of Economics. Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and Ralph Miliband, a Marxist intellectual and native of Brussels who fled Belgium during World War II. Alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 20, resigning after Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate ChangeĮdward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy