Edward Samuel Miliband MP (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician . He was the leader of the Labour Party and of the Official Opposition . He is also the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Doncaster North, and is a former cabinet minister.

He was born in University College Hospital , Bloomsbury , London and raised in Primrose Hill . His parents were Polish- Jewish immigrants . He is the younger son of the Marxist thinker Ralph Miliband . At the London School of Economics , he obtained a Master's degree in Economics , and then became an advisor to Labour politicians such as Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown . At the 2005 general election , he was elected to be the MP for Doncaster North . His first job in government was as the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change , which he took up on October 3, 2008 and remained as until Labour lost the 2010 General Election.

In September 2010, he defeated his brother David Miliband by a small number of votes to become leader of the Labour Party. ^[1]

He resigned as leader in May 2015 after Labour lost to the Conservative Party in the 2015 General Election. Jeremy Corbyn replaced him.

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