Showing posts with label Ed Miliband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Miliband. Show all posts
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Friday, January 27, 2017
Ed Miliband: 'We're Locking Ourselves in Donald Trump's Boot' - BBC Newsnight
Friday, May 08, 2015
Ed Miliband Resigns as Labour Leader
A devastated Ed Miliband has resigned as leader of the Labour party, saying he is truly sorry for the scale of the party’s crushing defeat.
In an emotional speech, Miliband said it was time for someone else to take over as leader, but called on the party to keep fighting, rather than give in to despair.
“I take absolute and total responsibility for our defeat. I am so sorry for all of those colleagues who lost their seats,” he said on Friday.
He said the party now needed an “open and honest debate” about the best way of rebuilding after the heavy losses, particularly to the Scottish National party. » | Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason | Friday, May 08, 2015
Monday, November 10, 2014
Palastrevolution in der britischen Labour-Partei
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Tony Blair Urges Labour to Take On Ukip over Immigration and EU
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| Tony Blair says an anti-immigration platform would confuse Labour supporters. |
Tony Blair has urged the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, and the rest of the mainstream political class to take on and confront Ukip, saying it would only confuse Labour's own supporters if it now ran on an anti-immigration platform.
He also urged Miliband to stay put on the issue of an in/out EU referendum, saying that yielding to the pressure of Ukip had not done the Conservative party any good to date.
Behind the Ukip facade was something pretty nasty and unpleasant, Blair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The former Labour leader said: "For the Labour party, if it tries to follow Ukip either on its anti-European platform or, even worse frankly, on its anti-immigrant platform, all that will happen is that it will confuse its own supporters and will not draw any greater support."
Miliband has repeatedly apologised for Labour's lenient approach to immigration in the past, saying it had not understood enough about the downsides of globalisation for working-class communities. Read on and comment » | Patrick Wintour, political editor | Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Ed Miliband: 'I'm a Zionist and Oppose Boycotts of Israel'
Speaking at a Board of Deputies event the Labour leader said he was opposed to boycotts of Israel and warned of the need to be “ever-vigilant”against antisemitism.
Asked whether he would work to ensure religious slaughter and circumcision practices could continue in Britain, Mr Miliband said: “Yes, these are important traditions. The kosher issue has recently been brought to my attention. Ways of life must be preserved.”
He added: “I take antisemitism very seriously. Any kind of delegitimisation of Israel is something we should call out for what it is and not tolerate it.
“I think the boycotts of Israel are totally wrong. We should have no tolerance for boycotts. I would say that to any trade union leaders.” » | Marcus Dysch | Thursday, March 07, 2013
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Saturday, October 05, 2013
GB : bras de fer entre le Daily Mail et le chef du Labour
«L'homme qui haïssait la Grande-Bretagne.» En titrant ainsi un article sur le père défunt du leader travailliste Ed Miliband il y a huit jours, le Daily Mail a déclenché une tempête politico-médiatique qui ne retombe pas. Après le scandale du piratage téléphonique par le groupe Murdoch il y a deux ans, ce quotidien populaire indépendant, vendu à 1,9 million d'exemplaires et numéro deux mondial de la presse en ligne, se trouve à son tour sur la sellette pour des pratiques cavalières.
Dans son article, le Mail dénonçait les convictions marxistes de Ralph Miliband, réfugié juif de Belgique en Grande-Bretagne avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. A 17 ans, il critiquait le nationalisme atavique des Anglais, se laissant aller à ironiser dans son journal intime: «On souhaiterait presque qu'ils perdent la guerre pour leur donner une leçon». Ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de combattre dans les rangs de la Royal Navy. Pourquoi s'en prendre à cet homme, mort il y a vingt ans? Le tabloïd a décidé de passer à l'offensive après les déclarations de son fils, surnommé «Red Ed» par la presse, au congrès de son parti, où il a assumé vouloir mener une politique «socialiste». » | Par Florentin Collomp | vendredi 04 octobre 2013
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Alastair Campbell Savages Mail Editor Over Miliband Slur
The row between Ed Miliband and the Daily Mail continued on Tuesday night as a senior executive from the newspaper refused to apologise for its attack on the Labour leader's late father but admitted that publishing a photograph of his gravestone with a pun about him being a "grave socialist" was an error of judgment.
In an interview on BBC2's Newsnight, the paper's deputy editor, Jon Steafel, refused to retract the paper's savage attack on Ralph Miliband in an article in Saturday's edition headlined: The man who hated Britain.
Steafel's appearance was an unprecedented public outing for a Mail executive. The paper's editor pursues a strict policy of being an "outsider" who believes his journalism can speak for itself and refuses to publicly pronounce on his paper over the decades he has been at the helm.
He said the piece was based on Miliband's public views and was justified. "Ralph Miliband's views were spread widely. His views on British institutions, from our schools to our royal family to our military, to our universities to the church. What he said was, he felt that all of those things were bad aspects, were unfortunate aspects of British life," Steafel said.
He said Miliband's father's views expressed in his "writings, his diaries, his books, his speeches", combined with his Marxist ideology, showed he was "very antipathetic to the views of a lot of British people". He added: "We thought it was reasonable to highlight those views." » | Lisa O’Carroll | Wednesday, October 02, 2013
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Daily Mail Deputy Editor Defends Miliband Father Profile, But Concedes 'Error of Judgement' Over Grave Image
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WIKI: Alastair Campbell »
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Daily Mail: An Evil Legacy and Why We Won’t Apologise
Nor did he see the funny side when we ridiculed the yucky, lovey-dovey photographs of him and his wife, behaving like a pair of hormonal teenagers in need of a private room.
But what has made him vent his spleen — indeed, he has stamped his feet and demanded a right of reply — is a Mail article by Geoffrey Levy on Saturday about the Labour leader’s late father, Ralph, under the arresting headline ‘The Man Who Hated Britain’.
Of course, it was not the Mail that first drew the prominent Marxist sociologist Professor Ralph Miliband — a man who was not averse to publicity — into the public arena. This was the decision of his son who, for two years running, has told Labour conferences how his refugee father fled Nazi persecution to Britain.
More pertinent still, McBride argues that Miliband Jnr is obsessed with maintaining Ralph’s legacy.
Winning the leadership, he writes, was Ed’s ‘ultimate tribute’ to his father — an attempt to ‘achieve his father’s vision’.
With this testimony before us, from a former Labour spin doctor who knew Mr Miliband inside out, the Mail felt a duty to lay before our readers the father’s vision that is said to have inspired our would-be next Prime Minister.
Today, we stand by every word we published on Saturday, from the headline to our assertion that the beliefs of Miliband Snr ‘should disturb everyone who loves this country’. » | Daily Mail Comment | Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Ed Miliband Reacts Angrily »
As the Labour Leader Reacts Angrily to Our Critique of His Marxist Father... We repeat: This Man Did Hate Britain
In his own words: ‘The cemetery was utterly deserted . . . I remember standing in front of the grave, fists clenched, and swearing my own private oath that I would be faithful to the workers’ cause.’
It was a lifelong cause the 16-year-old immigrant, who fled here with his father from Belgium to escape the Nazis, never deserted.
Ralph’s Marxism was uncompromising. ‘We want this party to state that it stands unequivocally behind the social ownership and control of the means of production, distribution and exchange,’ he declared to the 1955 Labour Party conference as the delegate from Hampstead. ‘We are a Socialist party engaged on a great adventure.’
Of course, he could only embark on this ‘adventure’ because of the protection, the education and, crucially, the political freedom, that this country gave him.
So how did he view this country? As an already politically aware 17-year-old, he wrote in his diary: ‘The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world . . . you sometimes want them almost to lose [the war] to show them how things are. They have the greatest contempt for the Continent. To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation.’
To help defeat Hitler, Ralph Miliband volunteered and served three years in the Royal Navy. When Labour, under Clement Attlee, swept to power after the war in 1945, he joyfully described the victory as ‘the country’s capture from its traditional rulers’. » | Geoffrey Levy | Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Ed Miliband Accuses Daily Mail over ‘Lie’ about Father »
Ed Miliband Accuses Daily Mail over 'Lie' about Father
BBC: Ed Miliband has accused the Daily Mail of lying about his father after the newspaper headlined an article about him as "The man who hated Britain".
The Labour leader said he was "appalled" that after offering him a right of reply, the paper had repeated its original article and also now "described my father's legacy as evil".
He said it raised questions about morality and boundaries for newspapers.
The Mail says it will not apologise and stands by the story.
In Saturday's article, journalist Geoffrey Levy questioned how the beliefs of Ralph Miliband, a Marxist academic who died in 1994, may have influenced the Labour leader and his brother, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband. » | Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Ed Miliband: I'm Bringing Socialism Back to Britain
Mr Miliband said that David Cameron's government will stand only for the "privileged few" as he promised to deliver an economy that "works for the working people".
He also confirmed his pledge to scrap the spare room subsidy, which he described as a "bedroom tax", and tackle the cost-of-living "crisis".
Unusually for Mr Miliband, he chose not to wear a suit, opting instead for a grey v-neck jumper and jeans. Earlier in the day he took a stroll along Brighton seafront with his wife Justine and his children, Daniel and Samuel.
Mr Miliband said: "We are going to scrap the bedroom tax, that's what I mean by a government that fights for you.
"And we are fighting for all of the low-paid people around our country. One of the proudest achievements of the last Labour government was the national minimum wage, making work pay for people.
"But under David Cameron's Government people are falling behind, the national minimum wage now paying people £20 less after inflation than it did when David Cameron came to office. That's just wrong.
"When we see that happening and when we think about one of the big banks, do we really think they can't afford to pay heir cleaners a bit more?"
It was "wrong" that millions of people "are going out to work unable to afford to bring up their families".
He added: "The Labour government will put it right, we will strengthen the national minimum wage, we will make work pay for the workers of Britain. » | Steven Swinford, Senior Political Correspondent | Saturday, September 21, 2013
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
BBC: Labour leader Ed Miliband has accused David Cameron of being "out of touch" for opposing European Union plans to cap bankers' bonuses.
He claimed the prime minister was "straining every muscle" to help the rich while doing little for the poor.
But Mr Cameron said the Labour leader wanted to "play and pose politics", while the UK needed to do all it could to attract the world's largest banks.
The UK was the only EU country to oppose the cap in a vote on Tuesday.
Under the plan, bonuses would be limited to 100% of a banker's annual salary - or to 200% if shareholders approve.
During a lively Prime Minister's Questions session, Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne were the only people who thought it was "a priority to fight for bigger bonuses". » | Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Thursday, September 27, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Labour leader records video for Out4Marriage calling for right to hold same-sex marriages to be extended to faith groups
Churches and other religious institutions should be free to stage gay weddings, Ed Miliband has said.
The Labour leader backed government plans to legislate for same-sex marriages as a sign that Britain is a "modern country".
However, he went further than ministers in calling for the right to hold same-sex marriages to be extended to faith groups as well. » | Press Association | Thursday, September 27, 2012
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