Quotes About Ed Miliband

#1. [Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

Nick Clegg

#2. A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

Michael Ashcroft

#3. Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.

Michael Ashcroft

#4. I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.

Douglas Alexander

#5. I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well.

Nicola Sturgeon

#6. I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

Lucy Powell

#7. The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Iain Duncan Smith

#8. Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson ... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

Nick Clegg

#9. Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Robert Webb

#10. Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

Ken Livingstone

#11. Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

Douglas Alexander

#12. One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Nicola Sturgeon

#13. I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election

Tony Blair

#14. New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'
Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: 'Now I know how Wayne Christ felt after little Jesus came along.

Andy Zaltzman

#15. Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

Andy Zaltzman

#16. We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

Ed Miliband

#17. I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

Ed Miliband

#18. Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

Ed Miliband

#19. The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Ed Miliband

#20. While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Ed Miliband

#21. Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

Ed Miliband

#22. Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Ed Miliband

#23. My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

Ed Miliband

#24. We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Ed Miliband

#25. One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

Ed Miliband

#26. We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Ed Miliband

#27. A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Ed Miliband

#28. I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Ed Miliband

#29. Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Ed Miliband

#30. I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Ed Miliband

#31. I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Ed Miliband

#32. Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

Ed Miliband

#33. We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

Ed Miliband

#34. Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

Ed Miliband

#35. This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Ed Miliband

#36. Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

Ed Miliband

#37. Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Ed Miliband

#38. I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Ed Miliband

#39. And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Ed Miliband

#40. The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ed Miliband

#41. The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

Ed Miliband

#42. We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miliband

#43. Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Ed Miliband

#44. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#45. I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

Ed Miliband