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Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA (The stone's demolition, in the event of a Labour loss, had been agreed at . Walking down Whitehall naked assaulting random passersby would have been better than having another day on whether we would do a deal with the SNP. We thought part of our problem was that we were very downbeat and depressing always telling people whats wrong with the country, one senior adviser told me. Ed, who was 40 years old, became the partys youngest leader since World War II. The previous year, Miliband had appointed the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, as chair of general election strategy, and Spencer Livermore as his general election campaign director. When Brown took over as prime minister in 2007, he named David foreign secretary and added Ed to his cabinet, first as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and then, from October 2008, as the inaugural secretary of state for energy and climate change. Not so, according to one hard-bitten adviser I spoke to. He didnt advocate personal attacks, but he was clear he had to go for him on policy. As well as Bernard Jenkins Cabinet minister father, three of Anne Jenkins grandparents were in the House of Lords, one wasthe only Tory woman elected as an MP in 1945. We would love to tell you why, but cant. Hell yes, Im tough enough. Although, as one of his closest advisers later admitted: Its fair to say that if anyone had suggested he was about say Hell yes in the interview, I would have run across the room to stop him., As anticipated, the Conservatives began the short campaign with attacks on Milibands leadership and Labour borrowing, but Milibands team were buoyed by the Tories failure to gain traction. One of the few senior women in Milibands team is Anna Yearley, his political director. It was this team that has fashioned a small though shrinking opinion poll lead. Robert Chote and Sharon White each have a powerful watchdog to oversee. Stewart Wood, 46 Shadow minister without portfolio Their names do not strike fear into their Tory and Lib Dem. Every shadow cabinet member he sits down with comes away thinking hes just met an ideological soul mate.. It was Labours most stunning defeat since 1983. 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. Miliband had, with his speechwriters, prepared two responses, each different in tone: one if Labour was confident that the Tories had lost, and the other for the possibility of a Conservative Liberal Democrat DUP coalition. We thought that we were not going to be able to withstand this level of hard pounding., But, to the teams surprise, the letter did not seem to cause as much damage as they had feared. By the turn of the year, the Tories had a narrow overall lead, while Labour still had a clear edge in key English battleground seats. At the end of July, Miliband made a speech on leadership in which he addressed his image problem. They were toxic politically. Even Tony Blair said Ed had been right to put inequality back on the agenda. The election was triggered by Gordon Brown 's resignation following the party's fall from power at the 2010 general election, which yielded a Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition. Not many newlyweds get personal congratulations in the House of Commons, but former Prime Minister David Cameron did just that when this pair of Tory MPs married in February 2014. We had an astonishingly good first two weeks of the campaign, said one close adviser. Baldwin, who formerly had strong links with the Blair inner circle, is seen to have brought a converts zeal to Milibands efforts to move beyond New Labour. 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. It was a form of collective denial., One hundred and seventy miles away, Miliband was sitting on a sofa in Doncaster with his wife Justine Thornton, Greg Beales and Stewart Wood. Everything he says and does he does because he genuinely thinks its in Eds best interests.. After spending a year (200203) as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Ed was selected as Labour candidate for Doncaster North, in Yorkshire. Theyre trying to destabilise him. James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. By contrast, the more cerebral Stewart Wood, a former politics tutor at Magdalen College Oxford, pressed Miliband to make an ideological break with New Labour, and concentrate the campaign on a promise to make society more equal, through reforms to banking, markets, and post-crash capitalism. The group of senior advisors that plan to cross the threshold of Number 10 with Ed Miliband do not have formidable reputations. And Stewarts still there. She was head of events for the official Remain campaign, Britain Stronger In Europe, and is now a communications and campaigns consultant. He wanted to disassociate himself from the past and talk about the future. The appointment of the former Times journalist and close friend of Campbell Tom Baldwin as media adviser, in December 2010, appeared to signal that Miliband recognised the danger, since Baldwins pitch for the job had been centred on the need to confront this very issue. 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. It's an English issue - nothing to do with Scotland. Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room, one senior campaign aide recalled. Children: The pair had three children, but their middle son, Andrew, sadly died. Assistant Editor of the Spectator Isabel Hardman and Labour MP John Woodcockare a notable Westminster item. Sunday Times Political Editor and All Out War authorTim Shipman is married to David Camerons former head of media operations Charlotte Todman. We then asked the BBC where they had filmed Mr Miliband, but they did not respond. There was no explosion, but the tension was horrible, one attendee said. In July 2013, in the wake of a scandal involving alleged tampering by the union Unite in the selection of the Labour candidate to contest a parliamentary seat for a district in Scotland, Miliband called for several significant changes to the partys procedures. Had there been more references in the speech to the deficit, he would not have forgotten it. The party's broad coalition has shattered - a fracturing that began 20 years ago, on the night Labour celebrated its historic re-election. Earlier, in the May 2014 elections to the European Parliament, Labour had gained seven seats to finish ahead of the Conservatives (who lost seven seats) but behind the virulently anti-European Union United Kingdom Independence Party, whose upsurge in support Miliband attributed to a deep sense of discontent among the electorate, which he believed Labour would further capitalize upon in the May 2015 British general election as it ran under a manifesto that promised Britain can be better.. 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. And politicians like that. The games, the games. 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. 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. [/audioplayer]If the opinion polls and bookmakers are to be believed, some time during the morning of Friday 8 May next year a small group of men and women will appear out of the of the Derby Gate entrance of the old Scotland Yard building on Whitehall, stride purposefully across the road, and assemble at the gates of Downing Street. 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. None of the scripts she had been given anticipated this disaster. Many Labour figures remain puzzled, and frustrated, by Milibands refusal to do more to defend the last Labour governments economic record. It was going to persuade 2.5% of the [electorate previously allied to Ukip] to go back into the Tory fold. One of the most influential is Greg Beales, his head of strategy. Their names do not strike fear into their Tory and Lib Dem opposite numbers. Eds leadership struggled with the tension between building a new offer of change while also trying not to define ourselves entirely against the preceding three terms of Labour government, in which he played a considerable part. We were getting inside-page leads and number three or four on the broadcasts, one adviser said. Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party during the One Nation era Ideological [ edit] One Nation Labour challenged some of the Third Way policy developments created by New Labour while accepting and modifying others. Latest news, analysis and comment on defense in Europe and beyond. Labour MP Jon Cruddasis married tolong-serving Labour Party special adviserAnna Healy, who was made a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill. There are times when you have to say, We could get a good headline today. 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