Everything about Ed Miliband totally explained
Edward Samuel Miliband (born
24 December,
1969,
St Pancras,
England) is a
British economist and politician. He has been chairman of the
Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which directs the UK's long-term economic planning. He was elected
Labour Member of Parliament for the
South Yorkshire constituency of
Doncaster North in the
2005 general election. He was appointed
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the
Cabinet Office on
28 June,
2007 making him and his brother
David Miliband the first brothers to serve in
Cabinet since
Edward and
Oliver Stanley in 1938. Miliband was also appointed to the
Privy Council as he works in close proximity to papers of state and
The Queen.
Early life
Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late
Marxist theorist
Ralph Miliband (son of Polish-Jewish parents from
Warsaw) who fled
Belgium during the
Second World War. He went to Haverstock Comprehensive School (now called
Haverstock School Business & Enterprise College) on
Haverstock Hill in
Chalk Farm. He read
PPE at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Economics at the
London School of Economics. As a teenager, he was a film reviewer on LBC Radio's Young London Programme, presented by
Clive Bull.
After a brief career in television journalism, he became a speechwriter and researcher for Labour politician
Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for
Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown the following year. In 2003–4, he spent a year's
sabbatical at
Harvard University, as a visiting lecturer in government.
In government
In early 2005 he resigned from HM Treasury and, in May, was elected to
Parliament. In Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle of
5 May 2006 he was made the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office.
In June 2007, he was appointed Cabinet Office minister in
Gordon Brown's first Prime Ministerial cabinet and given the task of drafting Labour's manifesto for the next general election.
Personal life
He is the younger brother of the MP and
Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
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