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Ed Miliband Articles

Miliband can succeed where Blair failed

In my garage, in a sealed crate, behind garden chairs, children’s bikes and a concrete mixer, I have a collection of Conservative Research Department pamphlets. These were produced throughout the 1980s and 1990s to provide propaganda points for Tory supporters on the...

Why I’m against a referendum

Peter Kellner imagines the case Ed Miliband could put —30 March 2015, London. This morning, Labour held its ‘Clause V’ meeting to decide the content of the party’s general election manifesto. This is an extract of what Ed Miliband said. ‘The draft before you rejects...

Tests of nerve

His detractors think he’s Neil Kinnock. His adherents think he’s Barack Obama. But the politician who Ed Miliband most resembles is François Hollande. For the most part, that should cheer Labour: President Hollande is, after all, a wonkish and non-traditional leader...

Ed at the chessboard

It is summer, and rumours of reshuffles float gently on the Westminster breeze.  Over the last year, talking to those around Ed Miliband, a quiet theme has emerged. The shadow cabinet has not been sharing enough of the burden of creating a vision of ‘One Nation’...