GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

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Miliband becomes animated talking about the people he met who are transforming communities, like those working on flexible working in Finland and council leader Matthew Brown who is pioneering community wealth building in Preston: “It sounds like the dullest subject in history but there is lots to be inspired by. On 28 June 2007, the day after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Miliband was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, being promoted to the cabinet. Politics has to be about what you are doing with people in their communities, not just about what the leader is saying on telly.

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The former Labour leader has learned to ride a bike in lockdown and is spreading a new vision of hope with his book Go Big. But whatever happens, the party that wins the election will be the party that is best able to “paint a picture of the future”, and this means he is very busy himself: lots of meetings, the hoovering up of expertise. Hester announced that he would forego his bonus, and Miliband said Labour would carry on with a Commons vote regardless, focusing instead on the bonuses of other RBS executives. I could have picked any Michael Lewis book for this list, but I've gone for Moneyball (2003), probably because I'm a big baseball fan after living in America as a kid, so this one ticks every box.Miliband worked closely with the think tank Policy Network on the concept of predistribution as a means to tackle what he described as 'the growing crisis in living standards'. The only trouble is that, having laboured to stir excitement in the reader in the matter of such ideas as universal basic income (a sum paid by the state to every citizen) or free buses for all (as instituted by the mayor of Dunkirk in France), there inevitably comes a moment of crushing anticlimax when he admits that, financially speaking, the sums don’t quite add up. While the book is definitively not Labour’s new manifesto, there is a quote from Keir Starmer on the cover. This meant that he and his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, became the first brothers to serve in a British cabinet since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialist, and spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministry, including criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy.

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Go Big’s origins lie in Miliband’s podcast series, a post-2015 challenge that’s allowed academics and activists, campaigners, and politicians of all stripes to share their insights on all manner of subjects with the wider public. His prescriptions for these crises, current and potential, focus unsurprisingly on making the institutions formed in the post-colonial 20th century – the UN, the World Health Organization, the World Bank – fit and funded for the urgent challenges of the 21st century. He was elected to the House of Commons in 2005 and Prime Minister Tony Blair made him Minister for the Third Sector in May 2006. In November 2014, Labour announced plans to require new EU migrants wait two years before claiming benefits. At the Labour conference in September 2013, Miliband highlighted his party's stance on the NHS and announced if elected Labour would abolish the bedroom tax.

It’s really important for us as a party to fight for building international alliances,” he replies, not really answering the question. On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31% of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.