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Ed Miliband says  Anas Sarwar made wrong judgement yesterday after calling for Keir Starmer to go

Basit Mahmood
10 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

The Energy Secretary also ruled out running for the leadership of the party himself, saying he would not run for a second time.

Keir Starmer at PMQs

Full list of cabinet ministers publicly backing Keir Starmer

Basit Mahmood
9 February, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“Keir Starmer doesn’t need to resign”

Right-Wing Media Watch: The right runs scared about an Ed Miliband return

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 February, 2026

Clark and others on the right appear genuinely alarmed by the prospect that Miliband could return to the very top of British politics, and they are doing everything they can to convince voters that his tenure as energy and net zero secretary would spell ruin for the country.

Ed Miliband talking on LBC
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Ed Miliband admits ‘situation has changed’ between UK and US after Greenland disagreement

Basit Mahmood
21 January, 2026

In an extraordinary speech at Davos, Trump stepped up his claims to Greenland however ruled out using force.

Right-wing media watch: One last swing at Ed! The right-wing press keeps missing the climate point

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025

This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.

Smear of the week: Torsten Bell – the right’s new scapegoat and the ‘EdStone’ hangover 

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 October, 2025

Holding two key ministerial posts and pushing substantive reforms, particularly in pensions, the MP for Swansea West is making some on the right nervous.

Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics and our country’

Basit Mahmood
2 October, 2025

‘He incites violence on our streets. He calls for the overthrow of our elected government. He is an enabler of disinformation through X’

Ed Miliband talking on LBC
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Ed Miliband to announce total ban on fracking

Olivia Barber
1 October, 2025

Labour plans to pass a law to permanently ban the controversial oil and gas extraction technique

Ed Miliband talking on LBC
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Ed Miliband slams Elon Musk as a ‘publicity seeking narcissist’ who should ‘butt out of our politics’

Basit Mahmood
16 September, 2025

‘Honestly he should go back to running his car company and as I think the Americans would say, butt out of our politics.’

Ed Miliband talking on LBC
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Ed Miliband slams Nigel Farage’s ‘fairy stories’ about bringing back coal mining

Olivia Barber
10 June, 2025

‘It’s almost just sort of unbelievable, because he is taking people for fools Nigel Farage’

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