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When Mr Miliband points out in the Commons that the Tories have appropriated his ideas without the size of his ambition, cabinet ministers chuckle that “we are all revolutionaries now”. As a backbencher, Miliband spoke about the need to tackle inequality [112] and in favour of the Paris climate change agreement. On 27 October 2021, Miliband took Prime Minister's Questions after the October 2021 budget on behalf of Keir Starmer, who had contracted COVID-19.

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In the same month, Miliband became the first British politician to be invited to France to meet the new French President, François Hollande. On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31% of the vote and taking control of six additional councils. Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a "disaster", with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority. One service Miliband can perform for the current leader is sparing him unhelpful headlines generated by meddling predecessors. Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband resigned as leader on 8 May 2015.

Then you get novels at an intersection of politics, like Dave Eggers’ The Circle, which I really liked. But now the Tories look likely to fail them, too, is it really credible they will just revert to voting Labour?

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Almost alone among my friends, I liked and admired Ed Miliband, renewing my on-off relationship with the Labour Party having watched his first speech to conference live on TV.

Ed Miliband tells Boris Johnson to stop blaming others for his Brexit 'mess' as PM defends power to break international law". On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain – who retired from frontline politics – as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election. The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

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The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of ' English votes for English laws', with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be held after the general election. He thinks Starmer appearing on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, which aired last night, is “a good thing to do”. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown at the 2009 Labour party conference in Brighton.

On 14 July 2012, Miliband became the first Leader of the Labour Party to attend and address the Durham Miners' Gala in 23 years.