1. In 2012, Ed Miliband wrote, "Like many others from Holocaust families, I have a paradoxical relationship with this history.
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2. Ed Miliband is of Jewish heritage—the first Jewish leader of the Labour Party—and describes himself as a Jewish atheist.
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3. Ed Miliband has spoken positively of his two immediate predecessors as Labour leader, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, praising their leadership and records in government.
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4. Ed Miliband endorsed the Blue Labour trend in the Labour Party, founded by Maurice Glasman.
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6. Ed Miliband backed UK military action and intervention in Afghanistan and Libya respectively.
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12. In May 2014, Ed Miliband led Labour through the European Parliament elections, where the party increased its number of Members of the European Parliament from 13 to 20.
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15. Ed Miliband conducted a final mini-reshuffle ahead of the 2015 general election in November 2014, when Jim Murphy resigned as Shadow International Development Secretary to become Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
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18. Ed Miliband made an unplanned visit to Lanarkshire to draw a contrast between a Labour and Conservative future for Scotland within the UK.
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19. Ed Miliband campaigned in the Scottish independence referendum with the cross-party Better Together campaign, supporting Scotland's membership of the United Kingdom.
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20. On 14 July 2012, Ed Miliband became the first Leader of the Labour Party to attend and address the Durham Miners' Gala in 23 years.
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30. On 25 July 2002, it was announced that Ed Miliband would take a 12-month unpaid sabbatical from HM Treasury to be a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University for two semesters.
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33. Ed Miliband led his party into several elections, including the 2014 European Parliament election.
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34. Ed Miliband was elected to the House of Commons in 2005.
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35. Ed Miliband became first a television journalist, then a Labour Party researcher and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, before rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.
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