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【Original】Ed Miliband wins Labour race in UK
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  Ed Miliband beats his brother David by a wafer thin margin to be elected leader of the Labour Party. To some extent, Ed Miliband has spent much of the first 40 years of his life in the shadow of his older, better-known brother David, the former foreign secretary. He did the same course - Philosophy, Politics and Economics - at Oxford University, at the same college, and followed David into a similar backroom role in the Labour Party, albeit on different sides of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown divide. The two even lived in a flat in the same building for a while. They both sat in Gordon Brown's cabinet, with Ed filling the less high profile role of climate change and energy secretary. Ed used to introduce himself at meetings as "the other Miliband". His stunning victory in the Labour leadership contest may mean David will soon have to start using that line. We can only speculate about what effect this sudden upheaval in the fraternal pecking order will have on their relationship, which they never tired of telling us during the leadership election is "close". By the end of the contest, when it became clear that it would be too close to call between the two brothers, tensions began to surface, although they avoided public rows. Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock, an Ed supporter who knows both brothers well, told a Channel 4 documentary: "David's response to Ed running has been deeply resentful." Oona King, who was at school with the Miliband brothers and remains a friend, argues that politics can tear families apart. "They can not be the same after this. I have seen it happen and I can see it happening between them." But as he prepares to take on one of the biggest, most high profile, and difficult roles in British politics, how much do we actually know about Edward Samuel Miliband? His supporters insisted during the leadership campaign that he was more "human", less aloof than David. He is a self-confessed maths "geek" who was a secret Dallas fan as a boy - they are hardly Bobby and JR, but Ed had enough of a ruthless streak to challenge his brother for the job long thought to be his. Marxist father During the leadership contest, both Miliband brothers made much of the fact they went to an ordinary North London comprehensive school. And while this is true, their childhood will probably have been a little more colourful, and certainly more intellectually stimulating, than that of the average North London schoolboy. Their father, Ralph, a Polish Jew who fled the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940, was one of the leading Marxist theorists of his generation - and a fierce critic of the Labour Party. Their mother, Marion Kozak, is also a well-known figures on the British left. [ Last edited by mayingjiu on 2010-9-26 at 07:19 ] |
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