Archive: Ed Miliband

Miliband urges on nurses against NHS reforms

Nurses urged to resist NHS reforms are already warning of cut setbacks

Ed Miliband is to praise nurses as the "first line in the defence of the NHS" when he encourages them to continue resisting the coalition's reforms later.

PM won't abandon NHS reform 'challenge'

Miliband bids to kill off NHS bill

The final straw? Nurses turn back on NHS reforms

Sketch: Miliband grins when he's winning

Ed Miliband has an unusually gleeful grin, the kind of gloating silent chuckle that must make him an insufferable Monopoly winner.

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Sketch: Cameron's bluster-o-meter was off the scale

Ed Miliband succeeded in riling David Cameron in the Commons this pm

By the time Miliband had finished Cameron had transformed from a sanguine, professional politician into a mess of a man.

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Labour focused on recession misery ahead of May 3rd elections

Labour would reverse 'granny tax' in May's Queen's Speech

Labour's leaders are fighting this week's local elections by pointing the finger at the "out-of-touch" coalition government.

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Hunt abandoned by DCMS boss

Jeremy Hunt's handling of the BSkyB bid now threatens his career

Jeremy Hunt's senior civil servant has refused to explicitly back the embattled culture secretary.

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Miliband mocks coalition's 'in it together' rhetoric

Mr Miliband said in the difficult economic climate people wanted "a sense that there is a national purpose, with shared sacrifice and reward".

Labour has set its tone for May's local election campaign with Ed Miliband calling for a return to a society which values "solidarity".

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Ed Miliband's 'we're all in this together' speech in full

It's about the obligations we owe each other, Miliband says

Ed Miliband is calling for a renewed sense of solidarity in British culture and an attempt at an attitude of "we're all in this together". Read it in full here:

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Bruised Miliband looks to bigger picture

The Conservatives will be out of power after 2015, Ed Miliband has predicted for the first time.

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End-of-term report: Britain is limping through 2012

The coalition is leaking political capital. British society continues to fragment. This year, it's fair to say, has got off to a faltering start.

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Miliband and Maude lock horns over party funding

Turbulent exchanges in the Commons over party funding

Ed Miliband has hit out at the Conservatives' "whitewash" inquiry into the cash-for-access scandal, amid turbulent Commons exchanges with Francis Maude.

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Miliband: These revelations are disturbing

Leader of the opposition Ed Miliband expresses his shock at the possibility that Conservative party donors has been able to buy influence.

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Miliband: The chancellor's plans have failed

The leader of the opposition reacts to the chancellor's Budget speech.

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Labour to 'conquer' youth unemployment

Ed Miliband offers a 'real jobs guarantee' to young people

A Labour government in power now would banish long-term unemployment among the young, Ed Miliband has promised.

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Miliband: This murder is a horrific event

Leader of the opposition Ed Miliband condemns the murder of the hostages in Nigeria yesterday.

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Miliband: The Queen is revered wherever she goes

The leader of the opposition, paying tribute to the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee.

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Miliband wants 'patriotic' manufacturing approach

Politicians should be more patriotic when it comes to manufacturing, Ed Miliband argues today

Politicians should patriotically support British manufacturing even if it means backing companies based overseas, Ed Miliband will say later.

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PMQs sketch: The day Labour MPs got their mojo back

Ed Miliband continued his NHS rolling maul

A primeval roar of hope from the opposition benches: this was the first time Labour MPs voiced a real appetite for 2015.

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Miliband attacks coalition's 'haphazard' bonuses attitude

Not 'anti-business' to attack bonuses, Miliband argues

Ed Miliband is launching a fresh offensive against George Osborne, following the chancellor's defence of big bonuses for City bosses.

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PMQs sketch: Nowhere to hide for Cameron over his NHS reforms disaster

Moving the goalposts: Probably much harder work than you'd think

The government's NHS reforms are in critical condition. After today's roasting from an in-form Ed Miliband, surely even the spin doctors can't save them now.

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