Who Are Ed Miliband Jewish Parents? Ed Miliband is of Jewish ancestry and identifies as a Jewish atheist. He is the Labour Party’s first ethnically Jewish leader.
Ed Miliband has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net-Zero since 2021. The politician has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005.
Miliband served as Labour Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015, resigning after Labour’s defeat in the 2015 general election. He served in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, from 2007 to 2010.
What Is Ed Miliband Ethnicity?
Ed Miliband is of Jewish descent, having been born to Jewish refugees. Thornton married in a civil wedding on May 27, 2011, and he honored his Jewish roots by shattering glass.
Ed attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Camden from 1978 to 1981, and then Haverstock Comprehensive School in Chalk Farm from 1981 to 1989.
He studied the violin in school and worked as one of the fortnightly “Three O’Clock Reviewers” on LBC Radio’s Young London program, reviewing films and plays. He served as an intern for family friend Tony Benn, the MP for Chesterfield, after finishing his O-levels.
Ed was sworn of the Privy Council and named Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on June 28, 2007, the day after Gordon Brown was elected Prime Minister.
This made him and his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the first brothers in the British cabinet since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. In addition, he was tasked with preparing Labour’s general election manifesto in 2010.
Who Are Ed Miliband Jewish Parents? Meet Marion Kozak And Ralph Miliband
Ed Miliband was born in University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, to immigrant parents. Marion Kozak, a human rights activist and founding member of CND, is a Polish Jew who escaped the Holocaust thanks to Catholic Poles’ protection.
Ralph Miliband, his father, was a Belgian-born Polish Jewish Marxist academic whose father fled to England with him during WWII.
The family lived in Primrose Hill, London, on Edis Street. As of 2010, his older brother, David Miliband, still owns the residence.
In 1972, Ralph left his academic position at the London School of Economics to become a Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. Miliband and his family moved to Leeds in 1973, and he attended Featherbank Infant School in Horsforth from 1974 to 1977, where he became a Leeds United fan.
Ed Miliband Children
Ed Miliband is married to High Court Judge Justine Thornton. The pair met in 2002 and shared a flat in north London before getting engaged in March 2010 and marrying in May 2011. Daniel, born in 2009, and Samuel, born in 2010, are their two boys.
Thornton worked as an environmental lawyer, most recently at 39 Essex Chambers, before being appointed to the bench. She was rated as “first-class” in the 2010 edition of Legal 500, a legal directory.
She was appointed as a Biotechnology and Environment Advisor to the British Government by New Labour in 2000, a position she maintained until 2005, and then served on the Attorney-C General’s Panel.
She then became the Chairwoman of SERA, the Labour Party’s Environment Campaign. She has also worked with the Welsh Assembly and was nominated for Chambers and Partners’ “Environmental and Planning Junior of the Year” award in 2009.
