Ed Miliband

The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero[a]
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Claire Coutinho
In office 3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Chris Huhne
Leader of the Opposition
In office 25 September 2010 – 8 May 2015
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Deputy	Harriet Harman
Preceded by	Harriet Harman
Succeeded by	Harriet Harman
Leader of the Labour Party
In office 25 September 2010 – 8 May 2015
Deputy	Harriet Harman
Preceded by	Gordon Brown
Succeeded by	Jeremy Corbyn
Ministerial offices 2006–2008 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Minister for the Cabinet Office In office 28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008 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 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Phil Woolas Succeeded by Phil Hope
Shadow Cabinet posts Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero[b] In office 29 November 2021 – 5 July 2024 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Barry Gardiner[c] Succeeded by Claire Coutinho In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 Leader Harriet Harman (acting) Preceded by Greg Clark Succeeded by Meg Hillier Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy In office 6 April 2020 – 29 November 2021 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Rebecca Long-Bailey Succeeded by Jonathan Reynolds
Member of Parliament for Doncaster North
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Kevin Hughes
Majority	9,126 (29.4%)
Personal details
Born	Edward Samuel Miliband (1969-12-24) 24 December 1969 (age 54) London, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Justine Thornton ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Ralph Miliband Marion Kozak
Relatives	David Miliband (brother)
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (MSc)
Signature
Website	www.edmiliband.org.uk
Miliband's voice from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 24 November 2013[1]

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Political positions One Nation Labour Predistribution MP for Doncaster North Energy and Climate Change Secretary Climate Change Act 2008 Community Energy Saving Programme Kingsnorth power station Copenhagen Summit 2010 government formation Labour leadership election National Care Service Leader of the Opposition (2010–2015) Leader of the Labour Party Leadership Shadow Cabinet Opposition frontbench election Graduate tax March for the Alternative AV referendum Project Volvo leak Phone hacking scandal Leveson Inquiry Falkirk candidate selection Bacon sandwich photograph Scottish independence referendum Better Together #Milifandom EdStone "Chaos with Ed Miliband" Elections Local elections 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2014 European elections 2015 general election debates Cultural depictions Miliband of Brothers Personal life
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Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024.^[2] He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother, David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.^[3]

Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Marion Kozak and Ralph Miliband, Polish Jewish immigrants. His father was a Marxist intellectual and native of Brussels who fled Belgium during the Second World War. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and later from the London School of Economics. 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 was elected to the House of Commons in 2005 and Prime Minister Tony Blair made him Minister for the Third Sector in May 2006. When 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 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. 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 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. He led his party into several elections, including the 2014 European Parliament election.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband resigned as leader on 8 May 2015. He was succeeded following a leadership election by Jeremy Corbyn, and returned to the backbenches. In 2020, Sir Keir Starmer appointed Miliband Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Miliband returned to government after being appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero by Starmer.

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