Miliband addresses some urgently topical problems. We thought that we were not going to be able to withstand this level of hard pounding., But, to the teams surprise, the letter did not seem to cause as much damage as they had feared. Benedict Brogan,former deputy editor of the Telegraph, now director of group public affairs at Lloyds Banking Group, is married to the Department for Communities and Local Government Permanent SecretaryMelanie Dawes. After hours:The pair claim not to talk shop at home too much, and relax by seeing friends, watching TV box sets, going to comedy shows and the theater. They really got to know each other after May became prime minister while working at No. Polls are probably a fairly worthless tool for evaluating the campaign now, but we looked at the polls and we thought: This is not working for them. We thought it was perhaps because business has less credibility now, or such attacks were priced in. Miliband had already become suspicious that his strategic team were determined to force him in a new direction; now he had been tipped off, in advance of the meeting, that a New Labour coup was under way. Glastonbury will open its first ever punk and metal stage this year so what better time for Ed. On 1 April, the Telegraph dedicated its front page to a letter, signed by 100 business leaders, which claimed that a Labour government would threaten jobs and deter investment. Ed Miliband lives in North London with barrister wife Justine Thornton and their sons Daniel and Samuel Age: 45 Electoral history: MP for Doncaster North since 2005. It was also proposed that Miliband would spend two days each week outside the Westminster bubble, speaking to voters all over the country, and suggested he approach prime ministers questions in a less confrontational manner. Labour MP Stephen Kinnockis married to theformer Danish prime minister, nowCEO of Save the Children InternationalHelle Thorning-Schmidt. Part of the problem is Toms always trying to prove to Ed hes a true believer, said one senior adviser. Nigel and Diane Dodds, following his win at the 2015 general election | Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. Brainiacs:The pair both studied economics at Cambridge, but met through a mutual friend two years after they left university. Order your copy of Ed Miliband's bo. The day after Labours non-dom announcement, Fallon launched a deliberately excessive attack on Miliband, suggesting he would betray the country by surrendering the Trident nuclear deterrent in order to reach a deal with the Scottish National party: Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader. In the latest PB / Polling Matters podcast, Keiran spoke to former Ed Miliband spokesman James Stewart about his experiences of the Scottish Referendum and General Election campaigns, why he thinks Ed Miliband was unable to win and what happens to Labour if Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader this weekend. Anna Yearley, 36 Political secretary Josie Rourke, Ed Milibands speaking coach, was not one of the people present in his hotel room after the 2014 Labour party conference speech. But we blinked and chose not to do it., Another aide explained why the Campbell speech was axed: The rival view was that our vulnerability on English nationalism was really very severe and anything that sounded like we were defending the Scots would be music to the Tories ears, and just make the problem worse. He was not quite sure in his head where he was, so when he got to the bit where the deficit should have been, he just started a different section. Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party from 2010 to 2015. Ahead of a major foreign policy speech at Chatham House thinktank in London on 24 April, the tension in the team over how to respond to the SNP issue came to a head. This strategic paralysis was still in place a fortnight later when Alan Johnson, Labours shadow chancellor, announced his resignation on 20 January 2011. . Eds decision to stand against his brother caused widespread surprise, but, even with three other candidates on the ballot, the contest quickly became a two-horse race. It is a very interesting case study in power, in that he would not be described typically as a strong leader, but very consensual. 'It's supposed to be fun': Ed Miliband helps exhibition secure socialist board game Ex-Labour leader fondly recalls playing Class Struggle, featuring at British Museum, as a child Ed, left,. Sitting on the backbenches, a bruised David said no once again. If Labour were going to win the 2015 election, something needed to change and time was running out. [1] The stone was 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in) tall and featured six election pledges carved into it, together with the Labour logo, and a copy of the signature of the party leader Ed Miliband. Then someone will say, OK. You get someone like Simon who actually knows what Manuel Cortes [head of the TSSA union] is actually thinking, and theyre going to grab him with both hands. Although a relatively recent appointment, Fletchers influence is increasing something that Labours dwindling band of modernisers have noted with alarm. This time, the dead cat was supplied by the defence secretary Michael Fallon. Shadow Justice Minister Gloria De Piero is married to Labour deputy leader Tom Watson's director of communications, James Robinson. Following Labours defeat in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as party leader, and David was regarded as the favourite to succeed him. He had two younger sisters. If it was not David Cameron or George Osborne saying it, there was Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond or Nick Clegg all using the same lines. And it is this team the bookies still have as favorites to win the 2015 general election. We talked about it a lot beforehand, and the strategy was clear. Alastair Campbell who was increasingly involved in the final weeks of the campaign, even attending meetings with Milibands inner circle wrote a punchy one nation speech for Chatham House. Hell do his job, but he isnt going to start drinking the Team Miliband Kool-Aid, said a colleague. Stewart ended the war with 20 combat missions. But they had managed to forge a reputation for constructing and driving one of the most formidable political operations in post-war British history. Sunday Times Political Editor and All Out War authorTim Shipman is married to David Camerons former head of media operations Charlotte Todman. Strategy, press, policy, economics, stakeholder engagement, foreign affairs. (The stones demolition, in the event of a Labour loss, had been agreed at the time it was commissioned. The shock was just awful. Peter Kellner is the former president of YouGov PLC and the author of. Samana Haq, who will shortly be head of news at the Ministry of Justice after eight years in the lobby as ITV News Westminster news editor, married Carl Dinnen,ITV political correspondent, earlier this year. The second was to break it up and sell chunks, like the Berlin Wall, to party members as a fundraising effort. With a career spanning 60 years, Stewart was a major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player who was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis . The tumultuous Scottish referendum campaign had only come to an end five days earlier and the desperate push to save the union had overtaken everything else. Ed, who was 40 years old, became the partys youngest leader since World War II. But it was steeped in politics; his father, Ralph, was a prominent Marxist historian,. After the 2015 election was over and he stepped down as Labour leader, though, things changed. And it worked.. Love blossomed in the economics section of the Conservative Research Department, when William Hague was leader of the opposition. By sunrise, they knew it had all been a mirage. Apparently Bush had this habit of giving senior foreign leaders staffers nicknames so he could remember them. While Milibands media team is seen as one of the more effective arms of his operation, many Labour observers question whether it would survive the transition to Downing Street intact. Yep, I was expecting that. Shadow ministers were being asked whether there would be implicit understandings between the two parties, or whether they would even speak to SNP MPs in the corridors of Westminster. Campbell. Dromey, atrade unionist, has been MP for Birmingham Erdington since 2010. Beales had first proposed the idea in an internal memo two years earlier, but Miliband decided to hold it back until 8 April, a month before election day despite his teams terror that Osborne might outflank Labour by unveiling the same policy in his final budget in April. Stears is viewed with suspicion by a number of the professional politicians and advisors who court Miliband. Neither was needed. Strong campaigns by leading trade unions gave Ed a narrow victory (trade union members held one-third of the votes) on September 25, 2010. Not just a big name in Northern Ireland, Nigel Dodds is now a significant figure in the rest of the U.K. after his party did a deal with the Conservatives to keep Theresa May in power after she failed to secure a majority in the June snap election. It was this team that secured the Labour leadership against the odds. Minister and member of the Johnson clan Jo Johnson and Guardian Social Affairs Editor Amelia Gentlemen are married. At the meeting, Beales told Miliband, partially in jest, that if you appoint Balls it is going to be the last decision you are ever going to make. Both are part of the current government, Lancaster as a minister at the Ministry of Defense and Dinenage at the Department for Work and Pensions. Chote marks the U.K. Treasurys homework at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), while White keeps Britains telecoms, postal services and broadcast media in check at regulator Ofcom. But long before the internal debate over Labours new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day and one for which Milibands team never managed to craft a decisive message. Screengrabs, which appear to show him standing outside Tesco by Highbury Hall, began appearing on Twitter. We thought, Shit, it is going to be like this over and over, the adviser said. Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICOs editors and guest writers in Europe. And one or two of the households occupied by their political opponents. Instead, it turned into a referendum on the risks of a minority Labour government. Earlier, in the May 2014 elections to the European Parliament, Labour had gained seven seats to finish ahead of the Conservatives (who lost seven seats) but behind the virulently anti-European Union United Kingdom Independence Party, whose upsurge in support Miliband attributed to a deep sense of discontent among the electorate, which he believed Labour would further capitalize upon in the May 2015 British general election as it ran under a manifesto that promised Britain can be better.. Caroline Dinenage and Mark Lancaster, right, visiting a Royal Navy submarine | Gosport Conservatives. Ed Miliband at the Midland Hotel in Manchester before the partys annual conference. Milibands closest advisers are aware of how quickly, and dramatically, his own legacy will now be discarded. We thought part of our problem was that we were very downbeat and depressing always telling people whats wrong with the country, one senior adviser told me. One problem for Miliband is both Henricson Bell and Beales are currently looking for safe seats at the upcoming election. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Leader of the DUP in the House of Commons Nigel Doddsand MEP Diane Doddsmet when Nigel was studying at theInstitute of Professional Legal Studies at Queens University in Belfast where Diane was a history undergraduate,according to an interview in the Belfast Telegraph. Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room, one senior campaign aide recalled. A less high profile, but still influential member of the inner circle, is Marc Stears, Milibands former university flat-mate who now works as his speechwriter. At its heart are the twin forces that would prove to be the partys undoing: the profound doubts about Labours instincts on the economy and the surge of nationalism in Labours onetime Scottish heartlands. At the end of July, Miliband made a speech on leadership in which he addressed his image problem. This has been corrected. While Labour gained 800 seats in local government in England, mostly at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, and fared well in Wales, its representation in Scotland shrank so much that the Scottish Nationalist Party obtained an outright majority. But Miliband knew the story of his forgetting the deficit would prove devastating. David Miliband had already rejected his brothers offer of the chancellorship once, and the only remaining options seemed to be Ed Balls or Yvette Cooper. Yes, say watchers of BBC News who watched him being interviewed in the town - but the Labour leader's spokesman has refused to confirm the visit "operational reasons". At five minutes to ten oclock on election night, moments before the exit poll was released, Labour headquarters was preparing to claim power, convinced that against the odds, they could combine with other parties to lock David Cameron out of Downing Street. Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010. Thats three big personalities youve got there, said one, and No. In 2011 Ed Miliband led Labour into elections for the National Assembly in Wales, the Scottish Parliament, and local councils throughout Britain with mixed results. It was this team that has fashioned a small though shrinking opinion poll lead. By the time of the meeting on 8 June, the atmosphere was toxic. He began flying combat missions and on March 31, 1944, was appointed Operations Officer of the 453rd Bomb Group and, subsequently, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Combat wing, 2nd Air Division of the 8th Air Force. Greg will present them with negative polling and therell be a lot of coughing and staring at feet. He has a tabloid journalists eye for a good political attack story, and harries the Tories effectively. So we have the meeting with Bush and his people, and Gordons in there with Stewart and a couple of others. But it is also the backdrop to many a romantic liaison, where you might be surprised to discover that your lunch partner is more than familiar with the subject of your conversation. Powell. Matt Goshko, director of press at the U.S. Embassy, and Susannah Goshko, deputy director at the Department for Exiting the European Union. After hours:We still talk about politics all the time, Merrick told POLITICO. It was going to persuade 2.5% of the [electorate previously allied to Ukip] to go back into the Tory fold. Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour politician and the Leader of the Labour Party. He enjoyed that. It was Anna who told Ed the last month before the leadership vote, Youre not going to do anything for the next two weeks except stand in the atrium of Portcullis House and glad-hand every Labour MP who walks by. And he did. When Miliband was weighing up the fateful decision to run against his brother, Wood was his sounding board. 1 James Stuart Ed Miliband pictures. But some of Ed Milibands camp view him with suspicion, regarding him as a veteran of Gordon Browns inner circle. We then asked the BBC where they had filmed Mr Miliband, but they did not respond. Greg Beales, 36 Director of political strategy Labour MP Jon Cruddasis married tolong-serving Labour Party special adviserAnna Healy, who was made a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill. He was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, as the eldest child and only son of Alexander Maitland . Bernard Jenkins father, who was then in the Cabinet and had been staying in the Grand Hotel where the bomb went off, met his future daughter-in-law for the first time when the young romantics eventually found him in a nearby hotel for the evacuated. Everything he says and does he does because he genuinely thinks its in Eds best interests.. Spencer wants Tims job, said one Labour source. Pointing to a black-and-white photograph in her home, young Ed demanded to know who 'that man in the picture' was . He had proposed a week-long attack on the great Tory deception over the deficit, which was to have involved the entire shadow cabinet. Miliband, who describes himself as both culturally Jewish and an atheist, had a far less dramatic upbringing. Even Tony Blair said Ed had been right to put inequality back on the agenda. The games, the games. In 1993, after a brief period as a television researcher, he started working for Labour Party MP Harriet Harman. He hadnt moved. This is his . There was no doubt in our mind that the party of the union and the party of separation were deliberately echoing each others lines.. But as the man charged with managing Milibands strategic interventions he has shown his worth,in particular over issues such as phone-hacking and the energy price freeze. Labour was especially shaken in its longtime electoral stronghold of Scotland, where the Scottish Nationalist Party catapulted from 6 seats in 2010 to 56 seats in 2015 and Labour held on to only 1 seat, even as Labours leader in Scotland, Jim Murphy, and the partys campaign manager, Douglas Alexander, were ousted. Subsequently David decided to leave front-line politics and not serve in Eds shadow cabinet. If the polls had reflected reality, it would have been a totally different campaign, one of Milibands close advisers said. Theyre trying to destabilise him. Most of the plans discussed at the meeting were implemented only halfheartedly. But if you are asking me, Did that spending actually cause the crash?, the answer is No. The answer lies in failure to regulate the banks.. AboutPressCopyrightContact. He was elected to Parliament in May 2005, four years after David had become an MP. Many of Milibands advisers acknowledge that there were two sides to the Labour leader. On 23 September 2014, Ed Miliband prepared to take the stage at the Labour party conference in Manchester to deliver the most important speech of his career. Instead, when an audience member asked him: Do you accept that when Labour was last in power, it overspent?, Miliband began his answer, No, I dont, to gasps from members of the audience. In fact, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit the one addressing the issue that had hung over parliament like an ominous cloud for the previous four years. But in mid-April, the Conservatives finally found a charge that stuck: the threat of the SNP. The battle that night would be whether the Liberal Democrats would choose to partner with Labour or the Conservatives. Pre-Cameron, Todman was personal assistant to his predecessor, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and also worked in Ed Milibands private office at the Cabinet Office. This was a tough puzzle and, despite all our efforts, one we never really solved., Ed Miliband had plan to force out David Cameron but polls were wrong, Labour lost this election before the campaign even started | Rafael Behr, The Guardian view on the Labour defeat: a failure of political direction and of strategy | Editorial, Can Labour recover? There was no time to prep for conference, the speechwriter recalled. Shadow Justice Minister Gloria De Pierois married to Labour deputy leader Tom Watsons director of communications,James Robinson. Milibands aides say that, looking back, he blames the Labour defeat on the SNP, and the failure of the campaign to inspire hope among certain key voting blocs known, in the argot of pollsters, as Mosaic groups G and H: middle-class families with small children, and young couples trying to settle down. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Exeter MP and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw is married to BBC producer Neal Dalgleish. Whos dating whom in the corridors of power. Whenever Ed needs someone to say how great hes doing he will pipe up Ed, youre doing great., But another Miliband observer thinks Stears has an important role to play in supporting his old friend. EdMiliband warns voters against Brexit free market experiment, EdMiliband interview: 'The thing that's important to me is that the fight goes on', Zero carbon emissions target to be enshrined in UK law, EdMiliband praised after giving a rough sleeper 10, 'Ed Stone' was destroyed shortly after general election, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit, announced his resignation on 20 January 2011, such as Gareth, whom Miliband had met while walking in Hampstead Heath. After hours: Talk is usually domestic practicalities at their home in Tufnell Park in north London. Miliband was so distraught that he shut himself in his hotel room, where a series of people, including his wife, Justine, joined him and tried to offer some reassurance pointing out that the omission had not featured prominently in the BBC political editor Nick Robinsons report on the Six OClock News. The party's broad coalition has shattered - a fracturing that began 20 years ago, on the night Labour celebrated its historic re-election. Others feared it would simply provide another day of media headlines about the SNP. You should tell a couple of the guys. Although the summit failed to achieve a legally binding agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, Ed was widely credited as having worked hard for a deal. In the weeks before the European elections that May, Milibands pitch to the public remained mostly incoherent. Then the seats came up. [audioplayer src=http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_24_April_2014_v4.mp3 title=Dan Hodges and Marcus Roberts debate the state of Milibandism startat=47]. Ed Miliband has spoken out about his relationship with his brother David following their epic feud several years ago. As well as Bernard Jenkins Cabinet minister father, three of Anne Jenkins grandparents were in the House of Lords, one wasthe only Tory woman elected as an MP in 1945. The first words came in, announcing that the exit poll had found the Tories would be the largest party. Alan Beith,who sits in the House of Lords as Lord Beith, is married to former president of the Liberal Democrats and fellow peerDiana Maddock. Instead of offering reassurance on the deficit, we were offering extra borrowing. Wild covered the Department of Trade and Industry, as it was then, and Evans the Treasury. Its not really talking shop, its just talking about the world, she said. The most positive description I could get was Its a work in progress. A bunch of medieval courtiers, not an office, said another. It gives them a sense of order. Or the more prosaic 35 Per Cent Strategy? The Sun carried pictures of the couple in matching elf jumpers at a staff party and reported that Lopresti was still married. Stupidly, none of us had thought the late changes could have an impact on the quality of what he would deliver in the rest of the speech, one of the advisers most involved in its writing recalled. The only reason it got through 10 planning meetings was because we were all distracted, looking for a way to punch through on the SNP, one adviser said. Alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, he served in the . There are times when you have to say, We could get a good headline today. Some expressed reservations about Balls, citing his reputation as a poor team player, and what they felt was a dogmatic stance against spending cuts. Hes the only guy in there who owns a pair of long trousers. Another observer agreed. We finally put together an NHS offer, but it had no life in it because it had only been agreed at the last moment., More significantly, the rush from Scotland to the conference meant that the party put very little thought into how to re-engage with defeated independence supporters. Falconer undertook highly detailed planning on the transition to power, including proposed concessions to the Lib Dems and bills to be introduced in the first Queens speech. But Labours legacy played a role far larger than anyone had expected. With David working for Prime Minister Tony Blair, the brothers found themselves in different camps that frequently devolved into intraparty conflict. He used to work in the Foreign Office, and in the Downing Street press office with Alastair [Campbell]. In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself. So *this* was "chaos with Ed Miliband"! Pets and kids: The pair have three children between them from previous relationships, and three fish. Eventually policy development was handed to Jon Crudass, fomer aide to Tony Blair ,and MP for Dageham. White arrived at Ofcom via the British Embassy in Washington (where the couple married) and then Tony Blairs Downing Street. Robert Chote and Sharon White each have a powerful watchdog to oversee. A spreading zero-hours gig economy cannot be good for the well-being of workers. Not so, according to one hard-bitten adviser I spoke to. Latest news, analysis and comment on German politics and beyond. There were two TV screens one on Sky, one on the BBC, a senior campaign aide said. [5] New Labour under Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to distance the Labour Party from the conventional definition of socialism. At its best, it faced up to the big challenge of progressive politics in the 21st century, which is how to achieve the goals of social justice in an era when we cant spend. Where Tony Blair had one senior media adviser in Campbell, Miliband has three Baldwin, Bob Roberts, formally of the Daily Mirror, and Patrick Hennessy, until recently political editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Fracking licences in Scotland are handled by the Scottish Government. Its a wish list of vague commitments. The graduate tax, the moral case for the 50p rate, a living wage., Woods clumsy efforts at briefing the press have become a running joke in Labour circles. Mr Miliband was interviewed live by the BBC on Saturday about the televised general election debates. And it is this team, rather than the shadow cabinet, that will decide the direction of Britain should Miliband win. It was decided that the next of these meetings on 8 June 2014 had to produce a radical turning point in Milibands leadership. He insisted that they should confront these issues directly, or else the specific retail offers to the electorate that tested well in focus groups, such as the energy price freeze, would fall on deaf ears. He brought some organisation and structure to the office. But those who were hoping Livesey would then expand his role to building a serious political operation were destined to be disappointed. Children:The pair have four children between them, aged 22, 20, 13 and 10 (the older two are Sylvesters step-children), and two cats. Instead, as the real results confirmed the exit poll, the discussion turned to the question of Milibands resignation, and whether he should stay on in a caretaker role, as Michael Howard had after the Tory defeat in 2005. And Stewarts still there. The difficulty, according to one source who observed the relationship closely, was that they only occasionally saw themselves as partners on a single project. Balls may have been right, but he was trying to win an economic argument for a fiscal stimulus from opposition, and that is hard. And partly its because Milibands operation has, by common consent, been a bit of a shambles. Hence his arms-length role managing press relations for the shadow cabinet. On 15 May, a week before the vote, Miliband met with David Axelrod Barack Obamas chief campaign adviser, who had signed on as a consultant to the Labour campaign for an astronomical fee at Corrigans, an upscale Mayfair restaurant. James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Alexander Maitland and Elizabeth Ruth Jackson Stewart. On 7 May, hours before the polls closed, Falconer started briefing political editors on how Labour could appeal to the Cabinet Manual to force Cameron from office. 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