Edward Miliband
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Sep 22, 2026
Rachel CunliffeGUEST
Unease, I think.
Rachel CunliffeGUEST
Why did Andy Burnham choose John Healey for that job? Well, partly because Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband would have upset a faction of the Labour Party, which again, actually, possibly proves Raph's point somewhat in that he has dodged a decision that might have upset some people and chosen instead somebody for Chancellor who was guaranteed not to upset anyone.
Rachel CunliffeGUEST
But also because he wanted somebody that he could... push around a little bit, who didn't have a kind of strong brand of their own.
Rachel CunliffeGUEST
He leaves really interesting because obviously when he was defense secretary, very well respected, but he resigned over defense spending.
Anthony AlbaneseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There is no avoiding the scale of our responsibility or the cost of inaction, because there is no denying what it also represents – another clear and urgent reason to advance the clean energy transition.
Camille BianchiCORRESPONDENT
In a statement to the Associated Press on Monday, UK Secretary of State Ed Miliband backed Albanese in linking climate policy with security.
Ed MilibandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My argument to you today is we need to take the next step and recognise the national security imperative too.
Ed MilibandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The climate breakdown must be an issue for foreign ministers and prime ministers as well as energy and climate ministers.
Kiran StaceyHOST
And we were expecting there would be an approval, certainly for Jack Dorr and potentially for Rosebank.
Kiran StaceyHOST
Now, there was always a question of whether Ed Miliband would kind of dig his heels in and refuse to approve one or the other of them.
Kiran StaceyHOST
But policy-wise in the UK, we're not actually in a very different place than we were a few months ago.
Kiran StaceyHOST
But what Burnham has managed to do is signal something to the US president and focus on one half of the equation instead of the other half.
"The UK government was definitely complicit" w/ Chris Doyle
Sep 21 · 18 Mentions
Top 50%Karim MakdisiHOST
And before we get into more details, we've moved now, obviously, into a new government.
Karim MakdisiHOST
We've seen that the British government now, the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has recently kind of done this highly publicized sanctions to Britain.
Karim MakdisiHOST
the settlers in the West Bank.
Karim MakdisiHOST
But before we get to that, can you just guide us through a little bit the previous government of Keir Starmer and the British support for the genocide in Gaza within the larger context of British policy over the last several years, so that we can then transition to try to understand what's going on now.
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Chris DoyleGUEST
They are wrong.
Chris DoyleGUEST
They've got to end the atrocities they're committing.
Chris DoyleGUEST
And actually, that's the sort of language that you saw Ed Miliband using on the 8th of September, a far more assertive
Karim MakdisiHOST
language.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
So let me quote to you the words of a Tory peer to me last week who told me that they wished Kemi Badenoch would be more like Ed Davey.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
And their reason for this is that five years ago, Ed Miliband went out and made all sorts of really big pledges for Labour to spend 30 billion odd on green stuff.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
His members loved it.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
It got a lot of news coverage.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
And then the country and the world changed and they had to renege on that.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
And that really annoyed a lot of Labour fans, a lot of Labour members, and it meant that when they started this Parliament, they were starting in a bad place with their members, they looked untrustworthy, they looked as though they'd say anything.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
Now, in defence of Ed Miliband, when he made those pledges, they were sensible.
Tim LeunigPANELIST
And what this Tory peer said to me is she feared that Kemi Badenoch's pledges at the moment won't stand the test of time.
Ian CollinsHOST
The sort of fixed price of international energy when it comes to gas and the like.
Ian CollinsHOST
Surely Ed Miliband, as he was then in charge of that, could have just stopped that, but they don't.
Ian CollinsHOST
And this banking thing you've just talked about, they could just stop that, but they don't.
Ian CollinsHOST
Which leads me to wonder whether there's something that either you're not seeing, I'm not seeing, or none of us are seeing.
Dale VinceGUEST
It's been done.
Dale VinceGUEST
There's no harm.
Dale VinceGUEST
When it comes to breaking the link, the thing you referenced there, look, Ed Miliband didn't do it.
Dale VinceGUEST
I have growing confidence that this government will do it.
Harry ColeHOST
The president has made his views known on the Falkland Islands and Britain's claim to the sovereignty there, as well as his love and desire of a united Ireland during his visit to the republic over the weekend.
Harry ColeHOST
So the scene is being set for a pretty frosty exchange, a tense time for the special relationship once again with that Chagos Islands deal still looming on the horizon with new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband breathing life into the doomed deal that one man has been following, I say, closer than anyone else.
Harry ColeHOST
It's Niall Gardner of the Heritage Foundation.
Harry ColeHOST
Niall, it does seem to me, you know, there have been tricky times in the special relationship in recent years.
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Harry ColeHOST
At the same time as we are literally trying to give that away and pay to have it taken away, we're also dying in a ditch, quite literally, for a far less strategically important territory in the South Atlantic.
Harry ColeHOST
Can you understand the frustrations the Americans must be feeling that just when the Chagos deal looked like it had been sort of nailed into a coffin, it sort of rises again, vampire-like, zombie-like, from the return of the grave.
Harry ColeHOST
And Ed Miliband, the new foreign secretary, sweeps in and basically says, we're going to resurrect this deal.
Harry ColeHOST
And the Americans turn around and go, well, hang on.
Emma ShortisHOST
Last week, Australia did not join the United Kingdom and others in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Emma ShortisHOST
That's despite what UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband described in Parliament as ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Emma ShortisHOST
Quote, As this was unfolding, I was at Parliament House in Canberra for the launch of a suite of proposed domestic legislation.
Emma ShortisHOST
The Red Lines package is designed to ensure that Australia doesn't fund, arm or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide anywhere in the world.
Emma ShortisHOST
Last week, Australia did not join the United Kingdom and others in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Emma ShortisHOST
That's despite what UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband described in Parliament as ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Emma ShortisHOST
Quote, As this was unfolding, I was at Parliament House in Canberra for the launch of a suite of proposed domestic legislation.
Emma ShortisHOST
The Red Lines package is designed to ensure that Australia doesn't fund, arm or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide anywhere in the world.
Liam HalliganGUEST
I genuinely think there's more chance of an early election because there's some kind of mad spasm from the Labour left ousting a prime minister who's under massive pressure from international markets than there is from Burnham himself having the guts to go early.
Julia Hartley-BrewerHOST
Well, then we end up with Prime Minister Ed Miliband, which I think is his cunning plot at the moment.
Julia Hartley-BrewerHOST
I worry that you are very right on this.
Julia Hartley-BrewerHOST
And one of the reasons why MPs are not going to do what is necessary.
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