``LONDON — Out of power for barely five months, Britain’s Labour Party set an ambitious goal as it concluded its annual conference last week: fulfilling the pledge of Ed Miliband, the party’s new, 40-year-old leader, an intellectual leftist strongly favored by Britain’s powerful labor unions, to make the governing coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats led by Prime Minister David Cameron “a one-term government.”
NYT
From Wikipedia:
``He is the son of Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband and the younger brother of David Miliband, himself a leading Labour politician who also contested and was narrowly defeated for the Labour Leadership by his brother. Together the two were the first siblings to sit simultaneously in the British Cabinet since Edward, Lord Stanley and his brother Oliver in 1938.''
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