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Friday, 3 April 2026

The Strange New Left-Wing Cult of Ed Miliband

 Over at the New Statesman, a long hagiography of Ed Miliband blows a great deal of smoke on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. According to Will Lloyd, to some acclaim from both sides of the climate policy debate, Miliband has become “the most powerful man in Government” and may even have been so during the 14 years of Conservative Party rule. Many words marshal some evidence towards Lloyd’s conclusion, but I believe that Lloyd makes far too much of Miliband’s meagre talents.

Miliband is at once both a product of the crony-ridden technocratic bureaucracies that bloomed under the dark of Blair’s term, but also seemingly an antidote to its excesses. In respect of the latter, some important coordinates are well-established in the article. Miliband was critical of Blair’s reckless foreign policy which started off as “humanitarian intervention” but which left hundreds of thousands of corpses amid entire cities reduced to rubble. And, it is claimed, Miliband is more committed to Labour’s radical principles of “social justice”. Miliband, it turns out, was a Jeremy Corbyn in waiting, “who wanted the working classes back in Labour”, but whose radical ambitions were muted for the sake of what seemed to be political pragmatism....<<<Read More>>....