Ed Miliband Articles

Machine politics has had its day, Chuka Umunna tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Labour must ‘kick machine politics out of the party’, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has argued. In a passionate defence of Ed Miliband’s party reform plans, the shadow...

From Syria to summer wrangling to the union link, Ed Miliband is struggling to keep Labour united, even at the cost of weakening himself. So this conference, you only have to look around the hall to understand the pressures he is under. Not long after Miliband’s...

Working people today are struggling. Families have suffered during the longest economic crisis in living memory. They’ve been battered by the ravages of austerity. Living standards have faced an unprecedented squeeze – wages have fallen behind inflation for 37 out of...

So now we know. Ever since he announced them, Ed Miliband’s opponents have attempted to portray his party reform plans as a rupture to Labour’s historic link with the trade unions and a severing of its relationship with millions of working men and women, who are...