He also thinks he should get the job because he is older
than his brother Ed and so if he doesn't he will tell their mam.
Not exact matches
As first choice among the new spokesmen, Yvette Cooper already has wider support in the PLP
than leader Red
Ed, who himself trails behind his absent
brother.
Why do people continue to think the former Foreign Secretary would have made a better leader
than his
brother,
Ed?
Ed Miliband's party is less popular
than the Conservatives and his leadership is less effective
than his
brother's, polls out today suggest.
He is more
than twice as popular as his nearest rival, his younger
brother Ed, when Labour supporters are asked to name their preferred candidate; who would make the best leader of the opposition; the best prime minister and have the best chance of leading Labour back to power.
Our raw data finds that slightly more people who voted in the last leadership election backed
Ed Miliband rather
than his
brother David, even though David won more votes among individual party members.
Ed Miliband has said that his relationship with
brother David has not yet fully recovered, more
than three years after they fought one another for the Labour leadership.
Well - respected for his intellect by those who work closely with him,
Ed Miliband has a far lower public profile
than his
brother and his politics are marginally to the left.
Burnham isn't going to win, of course, but
Ed Miliband may well do so, and he is four and a half years younger
than his
brother, David.
More on the Labour leadership from Channel 4 News: - Labour leadership: the contenders - Andy Burnham: the «ordinary» person's candidate - Diane Abbott: more
than a token candidate -
Ed Miliband: the alternative
brother - Miliband
brothers» leadership battle divides Labour - David to
Ed: Miliband family must remain strong - Labour leadership: the «squabble» for power
The only good news is for
Ed Balls, the combative shadow chancellor who stood against the Milibands for the Labour leadership last year, and who appears to have made more of an impact on the electorate
than the two
brothers.
Rightly or wrongly, he is less contaminated
than his
brother and
Ed Balls by the fall - out from the radioactive Brown - Blair wars.
David Miliband says the Tories and Lib Dems are more representative of the country
than the Labour party led by his younger
brother,
Ed.
Last week,
Ed Miliband would rather have appointed his
brother as his deputy
than get himself on the same side as the rioters and on the wrong side of the tabloids.
Given that this film starts right away on a note that combines the macabre with the impish, in a scene where
Ed Gein — the inspiration for Norman Bates — kills his
brother while Hitchcock (who was not present at the actual crime scene) looks on, it is clear that the filmmaker is out to give us a good ride rather
than to actually probe the depths of the great director's psyche.