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Ed Miliband
British politician
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Edward Samuel Miliband
- Title / Office:
- Parliament (2005-2007), United Kingdom
- parliament (2005-2007), United Kingdom
- Political Affiliation:
- Labour Party
- Notable Family Members:
- brother David Miliband
Ed Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London, England) is a British politician who served as leader of the Labour Party (2010–15). Miliband was the son of Jewish (and Marxist) refugees who had survived the Holocaust during World War II. Ralph Miliband, who had fled Belgium in 1940, became a prominent Marxist intellectual in London, where he met and married Marion Kozak, who had been sheltered by a Roman Catholic family in Poland throughout the war. Their sons, David and Ed, thus grew up in a household in which intense political debate was seldom absent for long. Ed followed his brother ...(100 of 908 words)