GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

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To Brown, these meetings represent, post-Trump and, tentatively, post-Covid, “the opportunity to unwind the protectionism of the last decade and reactivate international collaboration”.

Ed Miliband on five books that have shaped his life Ed Miliband on five books that have shaped his life

His prescriptions for these crises, current and potential, focus unsurprisingly on making the institutions formed in the post-colonial 20th century – the UN, the World Health Organization, the World Bank – fit and funded for the urgent challenges of the 21st century. Miliband was also particularly critical of former Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg following the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement, accusing him of "betrayal" and of "selling-out" his party's voters.

The frontbench is a more hospitable realm than the leader’s office: “You don’t feel you’re always carrying a Ming vase across the ice rink. During the 2011 military intervention in Libya, Miliband supported UK military action against Muammar Gaddafi. Others never forgave David his support of the Iraq war or his complicity in the events that followed which many believed made him unelectable. His “seven ways to change the world” imagine similar “cometh the hour” interventions, full of technocratic chutzpah.

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Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50. His father, Ralph Miliband, was a Belgian-born Polish Jewish Marxist academic whose father fled with him to England during the Second World War. During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialist, and spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministry, including criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy. This self-awareness – acceptance of the geek persona – is one of the ways in which defeat in 2015 has given Miliband a clearer voice. The sound of true believers chanting Jeremy Corbyn’s name may have lifted the roof in auditoriums, but it did not carry Labour into government.Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images Ed Miliband, shadow net zero secretary, wants the government to ‘stop moaning’ about the US Act and match its ambition. He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 23 May, responding to comments made by future Speaker John Bercow.