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Ed Miliband Articles

Defending the investments of the low paid

Over the decades the Labour movement has always championed workers’ rights. But we must also champion the rights of working people as capital holders, as investors in the stock market, especially through their pension savings. This is why today I introduced my...

No wonder women MPs are leaving the Tory benches

Ed Miliband certainly won prime minister’s questions today by focusing on the Tories’ ‘women problem’. It is the political equivalent of kicking the Tories in the crotch – much worse for men than for women. David Cameron tried his old trick of reeling off statistics...

Hunt finds the sweet spot

Being a shadow minister can be a miserable job. First, you have to make a splash, or people will call you lazy. The best way to make a splash is to announce exciting new things, preferably while wearing a fetching hi-visibility hardhat on a building site, or after...

Happy new year?

The surest sign that the Christmas joy is over is when the party leaders release their new year messages. This year they were unforgivably dull. If you haven’t seen them, and I really, really hope that you haven’t, here’s a quick summary. David Cameron He loves an...
Hard truths

Hard truths

Last month’s local and European elections bore all the hallmarks of a dress rehearsal for next year’s general...