Ed Miliband

We need a government for the many, not the few

Luke Pollard, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, looks back on the party conference season.

As the party conference season draws to a close for another year there's little doubt who’s been setting the agenda. Ed Miliband and Labour have identified the real problem of living standards facing families in Plymouth, and laid out policies to help deal with...

"Britain can do better than this": Miliband stakes his claim

In a conference speech that was rapturously received by the Labour faithful but that may still leave questions over his leadership qualities and public belief in him as a prime minister in waiting, Ed Miliband confidently spoke for over an hour in Brighton on Tuesday (24 September 2013).

Among a number of key policy announcements, Mr Miliband pledged to freeze energy prices for...

Miliband pledges to build homes and to cut rates for small businesses

In his conference speech on Tuesday (24 September 2013), the Labour leader Ed Miliband is expected to pledge a business rate cut for small firms and build 1,000,000 new homes, if his party wins the next general election.

The announcement will form part of a key note address to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, setting out part of Labour's alternative for the UK economy.

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Ed Miliband to tell TUC he will build "a new relationship with trade union members"

Ed Miliband will today (Tuesday 10 September) declare his ambition to build a mass membership One Nation Labour Party rooted in the lives of working people and communities across Britain.

In his speech to the TUC in Bournemouth, he will acknowledge that the reforms he proposes are a massive challenge and that some people are worried about change. But he will say the current system of...

Parliament pays tribute to former PM Margaret Thatcher

Parliament was recalled today to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with party leaders uniting to pay their respects.

David Cameron led the House of Commons debate saying Baroness Thatcher, "a conviction not consensus politician", had "made Britain great again" and spoke of how "she had been enormously kind" to him.

The Labour leader Ed Miliband said despite...