A major theme of the 2010 Labour leadership election was the rift between the . The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, Jeez, mate, theres a dead cat on the table! In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat the thing you want them to talk about and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.. By contrast, the more cerebral Stewart Wood, a former politics tutor at Magdalen College Oxford, pressed Miliband to make an ideological break with New Labour, and concentrate the campaign on a promise to make society more equal, through reforms to banking, markets, and post-crash capitalism. So we were trying to put together the policy offer in these awful conference calls between various offices in Scotland and London. In the wake of the European elections in which Ukip beat Labour to win the most seats Livermore went through the results with Patrick Heneghan, the Labour director of field operations. At 9.55pm on election night, in Labour party headquarters at Brewers Green in Westminster, the party felt that it had charted a clear, if perilous, path to power. Except in their own households. He started with the Isis passage, and it went over relatively poorly in the hall. Marc isnt like that. And it is this team the bookies still have as favorites to win the 2015 general election. They are the architects of One Nation Labour. The number crunchers were telling him that there was good evidence that the Tories economic recovery was only going to work for a few people rather than for everyone and that in an election about the cost of living, he would always have the upper hand., In early spring, as the election neared, Milibands media performances became increasingly confident. In fact, he has been concocting a recipe to save the Labour party. Not so, according to one hard-bitten adviser I spoke to. He was unable to delegate responsibility outside a very small circle.. The party would be unable to have an honest debate about what had gone wrong if he remained. Or we could say nothing and get lots of good headlines in a years time, said one shadow cabinet adviser. The Rt Hon Edward Miliband is the Labour MP for Doncaster North, and has been an MP continuously since 5 May 2005. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. His response is to revive the wage boards established by the Liberal government in Britain in 1909. One of the most influential is Greg Beales, his head of strategy. 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. Or the more prosaic 35 Per Cent Strategy? 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. More than once, the siblings provided the channel through which disputes between Brown and Blair could be settled or, at least, calmed. With David working for Prime Minister Tony Blair, the brothers found themselves in different camps that frequently devolved into intraparty conflict. Happy New Year folks of the YouTube world. Then the seats came up. Then someone will say, OK. After hours: Talk is usually domestic practicalities at their home in Tufnell Park in north London. Milibands senior advisers huddled for the next hour, trying to decipher the stated results. He has a say across all of it.. But however poisonous and dysfunctional the court of Miliband the Younger may be, either by fluke or design, they have clearly managed to get some things right. Damian says what are you talking about Stewart?. Tim isnt wet behind the ears. 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. The first attempts to destroy the stone had to be postponed when the media tracked its location to a south London warehouse. When Labour returned to power after the 1997 general election, Ed became a special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. We had to put distance between ourselves and the Bush administration. James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. Balls may have been right, but he was trying to win an economic argument for a fiscal stimulus from opposition, and that is hard. https://t.co/UMSrJLrwvb pic.twitter.com/AJPH4AY7FH, Andrea Jenkyns MP (@andreajenkyns) November 16, 2016. Some of us kept going back to the issue of whether Labour had overspent we went round and round, trying to find a formula.. In the blood:Their seven-year-old daughter delighted in breaking the news to her classmates that the prime minister had just resignedafter watching David Camerons final speech from Downing Street over breakfast the day after the Brexit vote. But his wife insisted that it was not the right decision he should not have to be repeatedly mocked by Tory MPs at prime ministers questions, she argued. 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. After having their names checked by the officer on duty they will continue their journey up the famous street, enter via the equally famous and rather imposing black front door, and get to work. The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014, after Labours poor performance in the European parliamentary elections. We did not realise how much impact it would have, and perhaps they did not realise how much, the close adviser said. Screengrabs, which appear to show him standing outside Tesco by Highbury Hall, began appearing on Twitter. Time apart:Constituency time is long-distance. Dromey, atrade unionist, has been MP for Birmingham Erdington since 2010. But they are learning.. Hennessy is also liked by political journalists, who regard him as a straight bat. Eds surrounded by kids, said one MP. Remember that Guardian letter urging Ed to be bolder on policy? Marc isnt massively political. They also hold Norwich City Football Club season tickets in Norfolk, where Wild has family and stood unsuccessfully for North Norfolk in the snap election. There was no time to prep for conference, the speechwriter recalled. One problem for Miliband is both Henricson Bell and Beales are currently looking for safe seats at the upcoming election. And it is this team, rather than the shadow cabinet, that will decide the direction of Britain should Miliband win. Miliband clearly wanted the election to be about the future and his vision of a new and more equal Britain. Mr Miliband was interviewed live by the BBC on Saturday about the televised general election debates. But instead of rehearsing the speech he had memorised, he was being forced to concentrate on a new opening section, endorsing the proposal David Cameron had made that morning to join the US bombing of Isis in Iraq. Jack Dromey and Harriet Harman at the 2015 Labour Party fall conference | Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images. The games, the games. Taking Britain to the edge of Europe and firing the flames of Scottish Nationalism, as Cameron did the morning after the referendum, are desperate acts of survival, the speech was to have said. After hours:Keen cricketers, Wild and Evans always get to England test matches and both played in the recent Lords and Commons team against the Lashings Cricket Club (made up of former test cricketers). Its not really talking shop, its just talking about the world, she said. The have just returned from a holiday in Sicily. Bobs a professional. 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. Following Labours defeat in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as party leader, and David was regarded as the favourite to succeed him. Once those issues embodied by Milibands memory lapse and his rushed deployment of aides north of the border were skilfully fused together by the Conservatives in the election campaign, they would prove lethal to Labour. Ed Miliband delivers his speech without notes to the partys annual conference in Manchester but forgets to mention the deficit. 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. 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. Others feared it would simply provide another day of media headlines about the SNP. The caricature of him is as weak, but internally he had great control., One of his bigger faults, the aide continued, is that the people he valued were the only ones that he could trust to do things. Harriet Harman was waiting outside Millbank TV studios to give her initial reaction. Greg Beales, the campaigns director of strategy and the keeper of the partys polling was convinced that, above all, the party needed to address the distrust of Labours legacy on the economy and immigration. It caused all sort of problems, says one Labour insider. Anything else would be a surprise, the aide recalled thinking at the time. Opinion polling in the immediate run-up to the general election showed Labour and the Conservatives locked in one of the tighest races in recent British history, with a single percentage point separating them in most polls. On his appointment, Miliband told Livermore explicitly that he did not intend to reshape his political project but Livermore privately hoped that his new role signalled a willingness by Miliband to change course and pick up the pace of the campaigns efforts to appeal to voters. Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010. This has been corrected. During the meal, Beales was fielding calls from Miliband, who was still asking him to think of a slogan for the remaining week of the European election campaign; Axelrod was appalled by the low quality of the ideas being discussed, which he derisively characterised as Vote Labour and win a microwave. And politicians like that. Stewart Wood, 46 Shadow minister without portfolio Many insiders worried that Liveseys theological background would merely encourage further meaningless introspection. And that means hes actually the guy with the widest interface with the voters. Josie Rourke, Ed Milibands speaking coach, was not one of the people present in his hotel room after the 2014 Labour party conference speech. He didnt advocate personal attacks, but he was clear he had to go for him on policy. Im not going to give in to SNP demands whether that is on Trident or on the deficit. But by then it was surely too late. Feline friend:Hetty, their cat, usually wakes the couple up before their early morning alarm clock. Mr Miliband, with his wife Justine Thornton and their two children, went to the Lord Palmerston near his home in Dartmouth Park yesterday, with members of his campaign team, including his. But instead of rehearsing the speech he had memorised, he was being forced to concentrate on a new opening section, endorsing the proposal David Cameron had made that morning to join the, Former Labour leader Ed Miliband delivers his keynote address at the annual Labour Party conference in Manchester in 2014. 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. And who doesnt get a job at all. Updates? But as was typical of Milibands campaign, a single speech was deemed sufficient for a box to be ticked. He was initially brought into Milibands inner circle by Lucy Powell, Milibands first chief of staff who has since become MP for Manchester Central. Milibands many critics in the press gratefully seized on the symbolism. After hours:Walks on an Essex beach, seclusion away from public life, concerts, jobs about the house and entertaining are the couples shared interests. The difficulty, according to one source who observed the relationship closely, was that they only occasionally saw themselves as partners on a single project. Dysfunctional, said one shadow cabinet member. If those opposite numbers know their names at all. It was Ed . Ahead of the times: The pair cohabited without being married in the days when it was thoroughly disapproved of. He points to the rising inequalities and falling productivity that go with a race to the bottom in labour markets. This is his first general. Now he is willing to stab the United Kingdom in the back to become prime minister. Milibands team seethed at the tactic, though several confessed a lingering admiration for its effectiveness. After spending a year (200203) as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Ed was selected as Labour candidate for Doncaster North, in Yorkshire. Still, the early signs about Milibands electoral instincts were not good. 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. Even Tony Blair said Ed had been right to put inequality back on the agenda. White arrived at Ofcom via the British Embassy in Washington (where the couple married) and then Tony Blairs Downing Street. Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICOs editors and guest writers on the continent. How Bush has given us all these pet names. Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of James Stuart and Ed Miliband. Maybe. 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. Walking down Whitehall naked assaulting random passersby would have been better than having another day on whether we would do a deal with the SNP. This time, the dead cat was supplied by the defence secretary Michael Fallon. Equality champion Harriet Harman describes in her autobiography, A Womans Work,how she and Shadow Business Minister Dromey worked together in the mid-1970s in a back room at the Brent Law Centre in a space so small their two desks had to be pushed together. But you have barely ever reflected our view and that of many commentators from across the political spectrum that the Conservatives want the SNP to win seats from Labour in Scotland because that represents their best chance of remaining in Downing Street.. They met in the lobby when Merrick was working at the Daily Mail and Helm was at the Telegraph. Miliband and Balls worked together amicably. 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. Exeter MP and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw is married to BBC producer Neal Dalgleish. 2. Subsequently David decided to leave front-line politics and not serve in Eds shadow cabinet. Even then, the question refused to go away. He hadnt moved. In just over a years time, this Team of Accidental Rivals could be taking decisions that affect every single one of us. The expectation is once the election is over Baldwin will return to journalism or consultancy, and Roberts will take over the main briefing role in No. Not many newlyweds get personal congratulations in the House of Commons, but former Prime Minister David Cameron did just that when this pair of Tory MPs married in February 2014. But the BBC has a responsibility not only to reflect what the Conservatives are saying but also to reflect on it. In September 2014, on the eve of voting in Scotland on the ultimately unsuccessful referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, Miliband joined Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in publishing a vow in the newspaper Daily Record to increase powers for Scotlands government should the referendum be rejected. Theyre learning. Their names do not strike fear into their Tory and Lib Dem opposite numbers. She was the one who kept banging away at the second preferences. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero. He divides opinion more than any other member of Milibands circle. He cant help playing games, another shadow minister complains. There was no explosion, but the tension was horrible, one attendee said. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005.Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. Electoral history: MP for Doncaster North since 2005. The shadow treasury team quietly seethed. The " EdStone " was a large stone tablet which was commissioned by the Labour Party during the 2015 United Kingdom general election. A spreading zero-hours gig economy cannot be good for the well-being of workers. There are times when you have to say, We could get a good headline today. He started producing all these bit of paper. When he was seven, Ed Miliband was taken to visit his grandmother in Tel Aviv. The document is patronising in places: it. Spencer wants Tims job, said one Labour source. None of the scripts she had been given anticipated this disaster. Jim Waterson, Buzzfeed political editor, and Jess Brammar,deputy editor at BBC Newsnight, are an item. 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. Many advisers stay in the shadows. Planning for post-polling-day manoeuvring had been handed to four people: Lord Falconer, Lord Adonis, Milibands chief of staff Tim Livsey and Alastair Campbell. Robert Chote and Sharon White each have a powerful watchdog to oversee. Initially, however, the sceptics were pleasantly surprised. Stewart Wood, the Labour peer, is not exactly a household name. They are currently engaged in a guerrilla war with foxes that are destroying their garden. Strong campaigns by leading trade unions gave Ed a narrow victory (trade union members held one-third of the votes) on September 25, 2010. The mockery was so intense that the location of the Ed Stone became the subject of frenzied media speculation after the election. Brexit baby: Their baby Clifford George was born on the day Article 50 was triggered and his arrival was announced in the House of Commons. It's the first spring-like morning of the year on Hampstead Heath, North London, when we first meet, the kind that gives sensitive souls hope for the year ahead. 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. . Beales argued that it would be more dignified to quit immediately. On 26 March, in an interview with Jeremy Paxman, Miliband delivered the memorable line: Am I tough enough? Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room, one senior campaign aide recalled. 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. 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. Trying to find the right nursery, school, college, university or training provider in Kent or Medway? 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. There were other problems, of course: the highly touted but ultimately ineffective 15m ground campaign; Labours difficulty in attracting elderly voters; the partys wariness to discuss identity or Englishness. Instead, it turned into a referendum on the risks of a minority Labour government. If there is a story of Milibands political journey in the last five years, according to the senior campaign aide, it is his gradual shift from Wood to Beales from Milibands more radical instincts to the cautious tactical politics he had learned during his long stint under Gordon Brown at the Treasury. One of the few senior women in Milibands team is Anna Yearley, his political director. 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. First born: Dexter, who has been on maternity leave after having the pairs first son, Hector, will return to work for First Secretary of StateDamian Green, now de facto deputy prime minister, in the new year. A bunch of medieval courtiers, not an office, said another. Harman wrote of her relationship: My job and my partner was very different from what my parents hoped for me. After the 2015 election was over and he stepped down as Labour leader, though, things changed. And partly its because Milibands operation has, by common consent, been a bit of a shambles. On BBC Question Time that evening, he stated that if a deal with the SNP was what stood between him and Downing Street, then so be it. And the meeting ended, and we all got up and Stewarts was the only one apart from Ed still sitting there. 24. Sam Stewart. He was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, as the eldest child and only son of Alexander Maitland . The next day, Miliband was ripped apart in the media, which added to the sense that his campaign was losing its discipline. Thus, two brothers sat in Britains cabinet for the first time since the 1930s. Ed Miliband lives in North London with barrister wife Justine Thornton and their sons Daniel and Samuel. In 1993, after a brief period as a television researcher, he started working for Labour Party MP Harriet Harman. The adviser who had helped to write the speech now admits Milibands human lapse reflected a deeper political truth. Ben Pattenden tweeted: Did I just spot Tenterden on @BBCNews .. Looks incredibly like it!. Hell yes, Im tough enough. Although, as one of his closest advisers later admitted: Its fair to say that if anyone had suggested he was about say Hell yes in the interview, I would have run across the room to stop him., As anticipated, the Conservatives began the short campaign with attacks on Milibands leadership and Labour borrowing, but Milibands team were buoyed by the Tories failure to gain traction. That exit poll will be seared in my brain for ever. Bell and Livermore stared at each other in disbelief, as the whole room put their hands to their mouths in shock. 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. Unless Miliband could present the public with a bigger and more inspiring message, Axelrod told him, it would be impossible to regain the support of the white working-class voters who were deserting the Labour party. The next media setback came three days later, on the final weekend before the election. Ralph Miliband, who had fled Belgium in 1940, became a prominent Marxist intellectual in London, where he met and married Marion . Tims been appointed minister for hubris, one wag explained. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod. Alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, he served in the . It was great at first. One of Livermores allies is Tom Baldwin, former deputy political editor of the Times. [/audioplayer]If the opinion polls and bookmakers are to be believed, some time during the morning of Friday 8 May next year a small group of men and women will appear out of the of the Derby Gate entrance of the old Scotland Yard building on Whitehall, stride purposefully across the road, and assemble at the gates of Downing Street. By the time of the meeting on 8 June, the atmosphere was toxic. 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