While Labour gained 800 seats in local government in England, mostly at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, and fared well in Wales, its representation in Scotland shrank so much that the Scottish Nationalist Party obtained an outright majority. Their sons, David and Ed, thus grew up in a household in which intense political debate was seldom absent for long. Total silence. Here is POLITICOs guide to the Westminster power couples you need to know. Follow the Guardian Long Read on Twitter: This article was amended on 3 June 2015. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts 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. He used to work in the Foreign Office, and in the Downing Street press office with Alastair [Campbell]. And partly its because Milibands operation has, by common consent, been a bit of a shambles. On 15 May, a week before the vote, Miliband met with David Axelrod Barack Obamas chief campaign adviser, who had signed on as a consultant to the Labour campaign for an astronomical fee at Corrigans, an upscale Mayfair restaurant. Show replies . Mandelson. We thought we might hold seven to 10 seats in Scotland, we had no intelligence on the Tory-Lib Dem marginals and throughout the day we had good reports in the English marginals. After hours: Talk is usually domestic practicalities at their home in Tufnell Park in north London. Eds surrounded by kids, said one MP. Ed Miliband unveils Labours pledges carved into a stone plinth in Hastings, on May 2. By June 2011, as the UK economy headed for recession, Balls had largely set aside the issue of Labours economic legacy and was locked in battle with George Osborne over how to lift the economy out of a deepening slump. Hancocks lockdown files show there was no Covid plandemic. It was great at first. Every shadow cabinet member he sits down with comes away thinking hes just met an ideological soul mate.. In a stream of memos, beginning early in Milibands leadership, Tony Blairs former communications director Alastair Campbell urged Miliband to confront what he described as the Tory lie on the deficit, arguing that it would be fatal if Labour allowed the charge to stick. 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. The next meeting was on [names issue]. 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 " 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. The Liberal Democrats deputy leader Jo Swinsonis married to former Liberal Democrat MP Duncan Hames, who is believed to be the first MP to take a baby through a voting lobby. There was no doubt in our mind that the party of the union and the party of separation were deliberately echoing each others lines.. Partly this is a reflection of Ed Milibands desire to turn his back on the celebrity politics of Labours recent past. In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself. [audioplayer src=http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_24_April_2014_v4.mp3 title=Dan Hodges and Marcus Roberts debate the state of Milibandism startat=47]. Where Tony Blair had one senior media adviser in Campbell, Miliband has three Baldwin, Bob Roberts, formally of the Daily Mirror, and Patrick Hennessy, until recently political editor of the Sunday Telegraph. We would love to tell you why, but cant. . The Jenkins have two grown-up boys. In fact, he even tried the old trick of placing stuff to make it look like it had come from Jon. Miliband and Balls worked together amicably. Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth is married to Labour Party Executive Director Emilie Oldknow. The next media setback came three days later, on the final weekend before the election. 10. Home affairs committee chairperson Yvette Cooper and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls were the first ever married Cabinet minister couple. Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman is married to shadow whip Nick Smith. The putative leader of Team Miliband is the chief of staff, Tim Livesey. By one account, Alexander was furious, declaring that the party had to stop fighting the 2010 election and start fighting the 2015 election. But it is also the backdrop to many a romantic liaison, where you might be surprised to discover that your lunch partner is more than familiar with the subject of your conversation. It is a very interesting case study in power, in that he would not be described typically as a strong leader, but very consensual. Updated: September 21, 2013 Forget the hype, said one MP, the Labour movement is an alien planet to Ed. 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. Beales had prepped him for a likely question on whether the previous Labour government had spent too much, with one of Harriet Harmans aides playing the role of a voter furious with Labour about spending. They represent places that are 120 miles apart Dinenage representing the south coast town of Gosport, while Lancaster is the MP for Milton Keynes North. Shortly after the 2014 conference, private polling conducted by James Morris and Stan Greenberg showed Labour doing slightly but not dramatically worse than published polls suggested. That tells you all you need to know about what they think of Eds chances, said a shadow cabinet member. Mr Miliband was interviewed live by the BBC on Saturday about the televised general election debates. If you want the politician from central casting, its just not me, its the other guy, he said. Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark dead cat strategy a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table and I dont mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. Jack Dromey and Harriet Harman at the 2015 Labour Party fall conference | Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images. Conservative MP John Penroseis married toCheltenham Racecourse board member and non-executive director of the Bank of England,Diana Dido Harding,who sits in the House of Lords as Lady Harding of Winscombe. And as soon as the meeting ends Stewart comes out and tells us all Bush has given me a nickname. Andrea Jenkyns first caught public attention when she defeated former Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls in hisMorley and Outwood seat by a margin of just 422 votes in the 2015 general election. 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. Hes the only guy in there who owns a pair of long trousers. Another observer agreed. Listen to the Ancestral Findings Podcast. Fracking licences in Scotland are handled by the Scottish Government. Podcaster and Politician Ed Miliband joined us to react to some of his most iconic memed moments over the past few years. My first impression is that it is no deal at all: the version of the text published by the government is adocument with no legal effect that is possible to enforce. That was never likely, he couldn't master a bacon sandwich! We had an astonishingly good first two weeks of the campaign, said one close adviser. Ed Miliband unveils Labour's pledges carved into a stone plinth in Hastings, on May 2. In reality, the fears in Milibands team about a repeat of the Blair-Brown wars proved unfounded. There were two TV screens one on Sky, one on the BBC, a senior campaign aide said. And that means hes actually the guy with the widest interface with the voters. At the end of July, Miliband made a speech on leadership in which he addressed his image problem. It was murdering us. In 2011 Ed Miliband led Labour into elections for the National Assembly in Wales, the Scottish Parliament, and local councils throughout Britain with mixed results. One area that Henricson Bell focused on was policy. It was an astonishing collective failure, another of Milibands closest advisers said. Instead, it turned into a referendum on the risks of a minority Labour government. If it was not David Cameron or George Osborne saying it, there was Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond or Nick Clegg all using the same lines. AboutPressCopyrightContact. Bernard Jenkin, an MP since 1992, is chairperson of the public administration and constitutional affairscommittee and on the pro-Brexit European Research Group steering committee. He was off his game., Whats worse, the adviser continued, for the whole of the speech, he was improvising more than you might imagine. At its best, it faced up to the big challenge of progressive politics in the 21st century, which is how to achieve the goals of social justice in an era when we cant spend. So Stewart walks up to Damian [McBride Browns senior press advisor] and says you should drop that to the lobby guys. Its odd, one Labour MP told me. This has been corrected. 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. Thats three big personalities youve got there, said one, and No. 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. This strategic paralysis was still in place a fortnight later when Alan Johnson, Labours shadow chancellor, announced his resignation on 20 January 2011. I can give you plenty of examples where the last Labour government did not spend money well and, as someone who believes that spending on health and education can change lives, it is incumbent on me to make sure that every pound is well spent. Not so, according to one hard-bitten adviser I spoke to. It set out a series of suggestions as such memos often do for Miliband. 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. A former foreign affairs adviser to Gordon Brown, Wood is seen by many people as the only serious political strategist on the team. [5] New Labour under Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to distance the Labour Party from the conventional definition of socialism. The prepared answer, broadly, was: I dont think every penny was well spent. 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. They stumbled on this SNP thing. Ed Balls was particularly frustrated that none of his attacks on Tory cuts were gaining traction. Baldwin is unpopular with his former colleagues in the parliamentary press pack, who regard him as excessively volatile. Alan Beith,who sits in the House of Lords as Lord Beith, is married to former president of the Liberal Democrats and fellow peerDiana Maddock. It was only a hundred words including a promise to eliminate the deficit as soon as possible but Miliband only realised the error, to his horror, as he walked off the stage. And it is this team, rather than the shadow cabinet, that will decide the direction of Britain should Miliband win. Latest news, analysis and comment on French politics and beyond. Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010. Harman wrote of her relationship: My job and my partner was very different from what my parents hoped for me. Ed is tutored by Barney Greenway of Napalm Death in the fine art of extreme metal vocals. Good stock: The pair both come from strong political pedigree. Spectator Political Editor James ForsythandAllegra Stratton,formerNewsnight political editor poached by ITV, are married. Although the summit failed to achieve a legally binding agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, Ed was widely credited as having worked hard for a deal. But it was steeped in politics; his father, Ralph, was a prominent Marxist historian,. | Tom Clark, Why Labour lost the election and what it must do to win again | Letters, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Ed Miliband shuts himself in his hotel bedroom after failing to mention the deficit in his 2014 party conference speech. From self . With David working for Prime Minister Tony Blair, the brothers found themselves in different camps that frequently devolved into intraparty conflict. 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. Miliband also advocated the adoption of open primaries to choose the partys candidates. At around 9 o'clock on the evening of Friday 3 September 2010, my phone rang at home. By logging in, you confirm acceptance of ourPOLITICO Privacy Policy. His critics run around saying Livesey doesnt get how all this works. And Tim just sits there quietly, and strikes another name off his list.. The tumultuous Scottish referendum campaign had only come to an end five days earlier and the desperate push to save the union had overtaken everything else. The adviser who had helped to write the speech now admits Milibands human lapse reflected a deeper political truth. You have stumbled upon yet another video. It is an overstatement to say he did not think the conference mattered at all, but the blunt way of putting it is that, in his head, he thought he was in a stronger position than the rest of us probably thought, said one close adviser. After the 2015 election was over and he stepped down as Labour leader, though, things changed. Harriet Harman was waiting outside Millbank TV studios to give her initial reaction. So he tries again. Minister and member of the Johnson clanJo Johnson andGuardian Social Affairs Editor Amelia Gentlemenare married. Some members of his team prayed the omission would not be noticed, though at a donors party after the speech, two of Milibands closest aides Stewart Wood, who exerted the greatest intellectual influence on the candidate, and Stan Greenberg, one of Milibands American pollsters were heard joking to one another about the missing passage. Notably, he proposed that union members no longer automatically be assessed a political contribution (most of which went to Labour); instead of the choice of opting out of the contribution, members would choose whether to opt in. Ed Miliband has been filling in on Radio 2 this week in the absence of Jeremy Vine, who is on a two-week holiday: highlights have included his interview with the singer from thrash metal band. Exeter MP and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw is married to BBC producer Neal Dalgleish. The most pessimistic had Labour with around 260 seats, making it difficult for the Liberal Democrats to reject a second coalition with the Tories. The group of senior advisors that plan to cross the threshold of Number 10 with Ed Miliband do not have formidable reputations. He started producing all these bit of paper. Milibands senior advisers huddled for the next hour, trying to decipher the stated results. 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. Happy New Year folks of the YouTube world. Matt Goshko, director of press at the U.S. Embassy, and Susannah Goshko, deputy director at the Department for Exiting the European Union. It made us the risk.. A couple of hours later we all trooped back in to talk about election strategy. The shock was just awful. Stears is viewed with suspicion by a number of the professional politicians and advisors who court Miliband. He points to the rising inequalities and falling productivity that go with a race to the bottom in labour markets. Partly its because his advisors have themselves, in the main, shunned the limelight. Beales is popular and respected, but frequently runs up against the see no evil, hear no evil culture of Milibands office. Others saw the occasion as an opportunity to condemn the war in Iraq and reiterate the break with New Labour. The other two envisioned Miliband as prime minister: one had the Tories on 270 to 285, unable to form a government; the other had Labour with slightly more votes than the Tories, but with slightly fewer, or the same, number of seats. Labour had won only 30.4% of the vote, and lost 26 seats. Where he should be talking Ed down from stuff, youll find Tom shoving him further up the ladder. Roberts, in contrast, adopts a more sceptical attitude towards the rather esoteric ways of his bosss inner circle. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Labour Party. Wood was charged with persuading Miliband to agree that a change was overdue. But in mid-April, the Conservatives finally found a charge that stuck: the threat of the SNP. Is Rishi Sunaks Brexit deal all its cracked up to be? The strategic justification was obvious, he said. A former McKinsey consultant, he was brought into politics by Tony Blair, stayed under Gordon Brown and is now minting policies for Miliband (including the energy price freeze). Dysfunctional, said one shadow cabinet member. Initially, however, the sceptics were pleasantly surprised. 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. (Another passage in the memo, suggesting a shadow cabinet reshuffle, was removed by Milibands chief of staff, Tim Livsey, who was furious at the suggestion.). Former Ed Miliband spokesperson James Stewart and Sky News Political Correspondent Tamara Cohen. Following Labours defeat in the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as party leader, and David was regarded as the favourite to succeed him. Our Education Directory has everything you could possibly need! Stewart was the one who told Ed that, to win, he needed to drive a wedge between himself and David, says one MP. She recently found herself in the spotlight over what was seen as her mishandling of the Falkirk selection scandal, which led some to see her as a lightweight. Nigel and Diane Dodds, following his win at the 2015 general election | Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. Hell do his job, but he isnt going to start drinking the Team Miliband Kool-Aid, said a colleague. We thought, Shit, it is going to be like this over and over, the adviser said. At its heart are the twin forces that would prove to be the partys undoing: the profound doubts about Labours instincts on the economy and the surge of nationalism in Labours onetime Scottish heartlands. 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. Shes got better trade-craft than people realise., A former adviser agrees. Age: 45. The partys focus groups also showed that voters did not believe Milibands denials, since they did not think he would ever spurn the chance to be prime minister. On 30 April, Miliband went even further in attempting to distance Labour from the SNP. If those opposite numbers know their names at all. Then someone will say, OK. He has a tabloid journalists eye for a good political attack story, and harries the Tories effectively. Screengrabs, which appear to show him standing outside Tesco by Highbury Hall, began appearing on Twitter. Stewart ended the war with 20 combat missions. 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. 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. Torsten started briefing against Jon. There was particular consternation among Milibands team, because some of them had argued that he should not attempt to deliver the speech from memory as he had done, with great effort, for the two previous years. Eventually policy development was handed to Jon Crudass, fomer aide to Tony Blair ,and MP for Dageham. 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. You should tell a couple of the guys. After the election, the party drew up two plans for its disposal: one was simply to smash the stone up and throw the rubble onto a scrap heap. 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.. Both have left Downing Street since the general election. But the planned week-long assault sputtered out after a single signed article by Miliband in the Times, on 6 January 2011, which accused the Tories of deceit, citing evidence from around the world to argue that a global credit crunch caused deficits to rise on every continent. Self: UK General Election. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero. Chote marks the U.K. Treasurys homework at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), while White keeps Britains telecoms, postal services and broadcast media in check at regulator Ofcom. His response is to revive the wage boards established by the Liberal government in Britain in 1909. Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room, one senior campaign aide recalled. 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. In fact, he has been concocting a recipe to save the Labour party. Too often, the result of their disagreements was inertia, the source said. Stewart Wood, the Labour peer, is not exactly a household name. Leader of the House of Lords Natalie Evans the youngest member of Mays Cabinet does not work far from her Ministry of Defense special adviser husband, James Wild. The first words came in, announcing that the exit poll had found the Tories would be the largest party. You could cut the air with a knife, and everyone wanted to get out. The clearest sign of Liveseys power is a campaign to destabilise him led by Spencer Livermore, the well-liked former Gordon Brown aide who was recently brought back to help mastermind next years election campaign. Douglas Alexander wanted Miliband to use the speech to confront Cameron over the SNP. 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. Once in Westminster, she metJack Lopresti, the MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, and the couple began dating later that year. 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. He hadnt moved. Beales argued that it would be more dignified to quit immediately. Feline friend:Hetty, their cat, usually wakes the couple up before their early morning alarm clock. 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. 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. Ed Miliband delivers his speech without notes to the partys annual conference in Manchester but forgets to mention the deficit. Great to be with @bernardjenkin and @GilesWatling in #Harwich to support 'This is Tendring' Britannia Ball for #RNLI pic.twitter.com/8NMo2F1etU, Anne Jenkin (@Baronessjenkin) June 30, 2017. 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. The team that Miliband had assembled around him consisted of highly intelligent individuals, but the whole was less than the sum of its parts it was, according to many of those advisers, like a court in which opposing voices cancelled one another out. Most non-work time is spent ferrying their two children around, though they manage to get to the theater and concerts when they can. It was very unpleasant. In the days that followed, there were angry phone calls and warnings about loyalty and Miliband did not speak to Livermore, the perceived ringleader, for a fortnight. Strategy, press, policy, economics, stakeholder engagement, foreign affairs. 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. Miliband addresses some urgently topical problems. He is more likely to be found following his beloved Liverpool football team around the country than touring the television studios. Elly Schlein shouldnt be a problem for Georgia Meloni, As deputy leader, Tom Watson may now be the Labour Partys only hope, Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie deux, The importance of exposing Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages. It was a shambles. Instead of offering reassurance on the deficit, we were offering extra borrowing. Latest news, analysis and comment on defense in Europe and beyond. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Their most alarming discovery was that Labour were underperforming in key marginal seats. Paddys main job is to get high-flyers like Rachel Reeves and Gloria de Piero on the park, said a friend. Miliband was forced to convene an emergency meeting at DPR as the team called his home on Dartmouth Park Road in north London to make a snap decision about a replacement. Hes the one who can pick up the phone to people in the White House., Wood was at Ed Milibands side from the beginning. The most positive description I could get was Its a work in progress. The graduate tax, the moral case for the 50p rate, a living wage., Woods clumsy efforts at briefing the press have become a running joke in Labour circles. The second was to break it up and sell chunks, like the Berlin Wall, to party members as a fundraising effort. Gould. Tom Baldwin, 48; Bob Roberts, 48 Spin doctors And to be fair, he did get a grip, recalls one former aide. Robert Chote and Sharon White each have a powerful watchdog to oversee. Wild covered the Department of Trade and Industry, as it was then, and Evans the Treasury. But some Labour insiders believe he occasionally fails to see the strategic political picture. Remember that Guardian letter urging Ed to be bolder on policy? Perhaps we should all be alarmed. We finally put together an NHS offer, but it had no life in it because it had only been agreed at the last moment., More significantly, the rush from Scotland to the conference meant that the party put very little thought into how to re-engage with defeated independence supporters. Anne Jenkin, who was given a seat in the House of Lords in 2011,leads the partys Women2Win offshoot, which she set up with Prime Minister Theresa May to boost the number of female Tory MPs in 2005. Below the big beasts come a diverse group of second-tier advisers. Asked where his boss was on Saturday, Mr Miliband's spokesman James Stewart said: "We do not comment on his movements. , though they manage to get to the rising inequalities and falling productivity go. Argued that it would be more dignified to quit immediately use the speech to Cameron. 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