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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  Marking out the territory | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
Ed Miliband, minister for the third sector, might equally be styled The Progressive Politician, which is a self-description he uses often.
But Ed Miliband, at 36 the younger by more than four years of the two ministerial siblings, is conspicuously reluctant to go down this avenue.
Ed Miliband may be a progressive politician, and a disarmingly young one at that, but a politician he undoubtedly is. He knows that some tough streetfighting lies ahead.
society.guardian.co.uk /futureforpublicservices/story/0,,1875946,00.html   (1421 words)

  
 Speeches by ministers and senior staff
Ed Miliband speech on the 19 March 2007 to a Charity Commission/BBC conference on participation.
Ed Miliband's ‘Social enterprise: a social movement’ speech to Voice 07, the conference of the Social Enterprise Coalition on 24 January 2007.
On 17 October 2006 Ed Miliband MP addressed the audience at the Rainer conference on youth volunteering, the title of the speech was “Youth, volunteering and society’.
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk /about_the_cabinet_office/speeches/index.asp   (2005 words)

  
  Ed Miliband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Samuel Miliband (born December 24, 1969, London) is an English economist and British politician.
Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband, a Belgian–Jewish refugee during the Second World War, and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Economics at the London School of Economics.
He is the younger brother of the MP and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary David Miliband.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Miliband   (309 words)

  
 Observer | Inside Labour's young boy (and girl) network
David Miliband (Corpus Christi) graduated in PPE in 1987, Balls (Keble College) in 1988, Kelly (Queen's) in 1989, Cooper (Balliol) in 1990 and Purnell (Balliol) in 1991.
Lloyd was the former girlfriend of Ed Miliband.
Miliband is a new breed of politician - analytical, unmarked by the real 'fl days' for Labour during the 1980s, and likes nothing better than a convention meeting on the future of the European Left.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4426080-102279,00.html   (1614 words)

  
 Defra, UK - News stories - 2006 stories - Government helps community groups tackle climate change
Environment Secretary David Miliband and his brother, Minister for the Third Sector, Ed Miliband visited Doncaster to launch the new community materials and website for the Every Action Counts programme.
Ed Miliband said: "The third sector has a critical role to play in responding to climate change and the one planet living ethos which says we must live within our planet's resources.
Having traditionally led the way on social justice, a strong and thriving third sector in the 21 st century is one which puts these big environmental challenges at the heart of its work.
www.defra.gov.uk /news/latest/2006/environ-1031.htm   (506 words)

  
 eGov monitor |
Ed Miliband, the Minister for the Third Sector, celebrated the creation of almost 350 Community Interest Companies (CIC) since they were introduced by Government 12 months ago.
The CIC model is the first new legal form for a company created in over 100 years, and allows socially-motivated businesses make a public, permanent declaration that the company will always work for their community – putting social and ethical purposes at the core of what they do and creating lasting progressive institutions.
Mr Miliband also paid tribute to the CIC Regulator John Hanlon after the vast majority of CICs described their experience of setting up CICs as ‘easy’, and have welcomed the regulator's light–touch approach.
www.egovmonitor.com /node/6720   (288 words)

  
 FT.com / World / UK - Social enterprise drive seeks to tap trend for ethical trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ed Miliband, one of a clutch of up-and-coming ministers close to Gordon Brown, will today launch a new drive to boost "social enterprises" - private sector companies that have conventional trading operations but also re-invest much of their profits in activities that are ethical or assist the community.
Mr Miliband, Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary, and the chancellor will today launch an "action plan" to support social enterprises, arguing they are increasingly in vogue.
Mr Miliband insists that he is "absolutely focused" on this broad interpretation of social enterprise as well.
www.ft.com /cms/s/c57c04a0-7517-11db-bc76-0000779e2340.html   (659 words)

  
 Ed Miliband MP – Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Ed Miliband MP –; Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP –; Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Ed Miliband was elected Labour MP for Doncaster North in May 2005.
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk /about_the_cabinet_office/ed_miliband.asp   (213 words)

  
 The advisers: Meet the Brownies - Ed, Ed and Charlie
AN economist best known for an incomprehensible speech, the son of a Marxist professor and a former student Communist party activist are to be Labour's chief Brownies.
Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Charlie Whelan will be appointed advisers to chancellor Gordon Brown over the weekend.
Ed Miliband is one of two mini-Milibands produced by Marxist historian Ralph Miliband, who wrote the neo-Marxist textbook The State in Capitalist Society.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/05/03/cele305.html   (260 words)

  
 Defra, UK - News releases 2006: Government helps community groups tackle climate change
Environment Secretary David Miliband and Minister for the Third Sector Ed Miliband visited Doncaster to launch the new community materials and website as part of ‘Every Action Counts' — a scheme aimed at helping community groups take action.
Having traditionally led the way on social justice, a strong and thriving third sector in the 21st century is one which puts these big environmental challenges at the heart of its work.
It is worth up to £4 M over three years and is delivered by a strategic partnership of over 22 national voluntary and community sector organisations with the Community Development Foundation as the accountable body.
www.defra.gov.uk /news/2006/061027b.htm   (1030 words)

  
 MILIBAND PROMISES FREEDOMS
Mr Miliband promised to look again at the inspection burden endured by top authorities and invited them to send him details: “If the best performers are being bunged up by regulation and inspection I want to know why.
Mr Miliband described his role as pushing forward the objectives spelt out in the ODPM's five-year plan, published in January, and being a catalyst for local progress.
Mr Miliband has not slammed the door shut on establishing further unitary councils, but it is not a priority for him.
www.lgcnet.com /pages/news/article.asp?ArticleID=329400   (1348 words)

  
 Press: 2004-61
“Ed has been a close colleague of mine for the last ten years and I want to thank him for the great contribution he has made to the Treasury's work over the last seven, first as economic adviser and for the last five years as Chief Economic Adviser.
Ed Balls joined the Treasury in May 1997 as Economic Adviser to the Chancellor.
Ed Miliband joined the Treasury in May 1997 as Special Adviser to the Chancellor.
hm-treasury.gov.uk /newsroom_and_speeches/press/2004/press_61_04.cfm   (528 words)

  
 PR Newswire : Ed Miliband launches ÂŁ2m centre for research into what makes people give to charity
Ed Miliband was appointed as the new Minister for the Third Sector, working in the Cabinet Office to Hilary Armstrong, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
CABINET OFFICE News Release (CHARITY) issued by The Government News Network on 16 October 2006 Ed Miliband, Minister for the Third Sector, today marked the start of National Giving Week by announcing plans to establish a new centre of excellence to lead research into philanthropy and charitable giving.
The Centre is being created by the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) in the Cabinet Office, in partnership with the Carnegie UK Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Scottish Executive (SE).
media.netpr.pl /notatka_65594.html   (726 words)

  
 Backward to liberalism
Nevertheless, they are edited by David Miliband, by all accounts one of the key figures in the new leader's kitchen cabinet, and the contributors include Blair's close ally, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown.
The whole tone of the collection and the manner in which it is packaged is intended to convey the impression that its aim is to reassess the socialist tradition for a new age.
Miliband asserts on behalf of his contributors, 'The role of politics is not to abolish markets, but to organise and regulate them.'
pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj66/callinicos.htm   (4526 words)

  
 Press Office
Miliband feared that many people in his Doncaster North constituency ‘don’t feel a part of the Labour family any more’, and argued that, in order to call a halt to declining membership and increasing scepticism, party members desperately ‘need to feel that their party has a sense of its values.’
Ed Miliband said that the number of people who saw a major difference between the two parties — 84% in 1987 and 55% in 1992 but now down to 23% - as one of the most worrying statistics in politics.
Miliband argued that Labour could renew itself by proving it ‘we have an analysis about our society and a mission to change it … when we look at Make Poverty History and Oxfam, we don’t see people leaving; we see them joining’.
www.fabian-society.org.uk /press_office/display.asp?id=488&type=news&cat=43   (1040 words)

  
 Press Office
Labour must “persuade people that the more equal society is, the better”, Cabinet Office Minister Ed Miliband told a Fabian Society debate on ‘Narrowing the Gap’ at June’s Compass conference in London.
Ed Miliband was debating ‘Narrowing the Gap: how do we make Britain more equal?’ with Lousie Bamfield, lead researcher on the Fabian Society’s life chances work, Carey Oppenheim, Chair of the London Child Poverty Commission and Martin Bright, Political Editor of the New Statesman.
It hasn’t grown; it has narrowed”, said Miliband, pointing out that child poverty is lower today than at any time since 1987, and that the period since 1998 has seen the largest sustained fall in child poverty than at any time since 1961 when records began.
www.fabian-society.org.uk /press_office/display.asp?id=563&type=news&cat=43   (531 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Work begins on Labour manifesto
Cabinet Office minister Ed Miliband has started work on Labour's manifesto for the next general election.
Downing Street sources told the BBC Mr Miliband has been asked to prepare a draft document ahead of the party's annual conference in September.
A spokesman said Mr Miliband's task, which he started at a meeting of Labour's national policy forum, would now go ahead "quite intensely".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/6899686.stm   (297 words)

  
 GMB Calls On Parliamentary Secretary Ed Miliband MP To Shun AA’s Social Gimmick Launch
Damon Buffini, head of Permira the Venture Capitalist owner of the AA is attempting to repair his damaged public image by donating 1 million euro, (£682k), to a Social Enterprise Fund.
Paul Kenny, GMB, General Secretary wrote to Ed Miliband MP and asked him to boycott the event.
Charites Minister Ed Miliband arrived and listened to what GMB had to tell him about Buffini and Permira.
www.gmb.org.uk /Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=94237   (287 words)

  
 JET News: Ed Miliband Visits Liverpool
The team arranged to take Mr Miliband with them on their new minibus, provided with funding support through the City Council, to visit houses in the area.
"Ed Miliband said the way that the different agencies are working together in Liverpool to release staff to work together as a team was inspiring.
The initiative was also warmly praised by major local employers such as Liverpool John Lennon Airport, which has a strong business need for a pool of skilled local labour.
www.jetsouthliverpool.org /news_edmilibandvisit2.htm   (157 words)

  
 New Statesman - NS Essay - 'The Tories will briefly return to power in 2010, but after that it will be Labour's century'
Look next at Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Geoff Mulgan waiting in the wings, and if you are a Conservative, you should be very afraid.
The next generation can roughly be divided into Brownites (Douglas Alexander and Ed Miliband, for example) and Blairites (Geoff Mulgan and David Miliband, for example), but the big question is whether they avoid their elders' viciousness or re-enact it.
In a speech given before he became a minister, Miliband talked of a "social democratic commitment to social justice through collective action enriched by commitment to individual freedom in the market economy".
www.newstatesman.com /200403080014   (2531 words)

  
 Miliband: RDAs will back social enterprise
Mr Miliband explained that, unlike his predecessors at the DTI and Home Office, who had diverse portfolios to deal with, the third sector was ‘effectively my sole responsibility'.
Mr Miliband added that he wanted to be ‘action oriented' and was ‘not keen on process for process's sake'.
Responding to the new figures for social enterprise announced by Ed Miliband, Jonathan Bland, chief executive of the Social Enterprise Coalition, said they illustrated ‘the scale of social enterprise in the UK' and underlined that social enterprises were an important part of the business landscape.
www.socialenterprisemag.co.uk /sem/news/detail/index.asp?id=113   (768 words)

  
 Charities Aid Foundation - Third sector review makes progress
Spanning charities, voluntary organisations and charity groups and social enterprises, members of the alliance were invited to share their views on the future of their organisations' role in the sector and society.
The minister led a discussion that sought to establish the sector's long term priorities, as well as pre-empting challenges that the sector is expected to face over the next ten years.
Minister for the Third Sector Ed Miliband said: "The review of the sector is a real opportunity to make sure it is properly supported by Government to meet the challenges of the future.
www.cafonline.org /Default.aspx?page=11563   (243 words)

  
 Charities Aid Foundation - Centre to study charitable giving
What makes people give to charity is the key aim of the research centre, which is sure to provide valuable insights for charities and fundraisers across the third sector and help inform future policy made by politicians.
Ed Miliband said: "We live in a society where many people give.
Three out of five people regularly give money to charity, donating more than £8bn a year, Mr Miliband said – prompting the need to look more closely at why and how they choose to donate.
www.cafonline.org.uk /Default.aspx?page=12052   (292 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Politics - Chancellor’s aide to go   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
ED Miliband, one of Gordon Brown’s most trusted advisers, is believed to be on the point of leaving the Chancellor’s team to study in the US.
The Scotsman understands that Mr Miliband, 31, is considering a post-graduate course in Harvard Business School.
The current proposal is that this would be a 12-month departure with the option of rejoining the Treasury within a year.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=799762002   (178 words)

  
 ePolitix.com - Miliband and Balls back equality report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Communities minister David Miliband and Ed Balls, the chancellor's former chief economic adviser, were on Thursday attending the launch of the final report of the Fabian Society's Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty.
While neither Miliband nor Balls have given their full backing to the plan.
Meanwhile Miliband, who has spoken of his concern at the government's failure to improve social mobility faster, was set to give the keynote speech at the launch of the report.
epolitix.com /EN/News/200603/e1eaa888-49e4-4aae-878a-d9240cae4b39.htm   (479 words)

  
 ePolitix.com - Advisers and spinners head for Westminster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Former Treasury special adviser Ed Miliband won for Labour in Doncaster North.
Miliband joined the Treasury in May 1997 as special adviser to the chancellor.
Another Conservative moderniser, Oxford educated Ed Vaizey, was set to be elected in the safe Tory seat of Wantage.
epolitix.com /EN/News/200505/ea643b45-529d-4029-af2c-06d1b2308884.htm   (674 words)

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