GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

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Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.

The Guardian view on Go Big: Ed Miliband on transforming The Guardian view on Go Big: Ed Miliband on transforming

The shadow business, energy and industrial secretary is right, however, to argue that only sweeping changes can remake societies so that they are fairer, more secure and more prosperous. In Miliband’s case, the paradox is doubly poignant because he was derided for advancing arguments that have since been absorbed into the political consensus.His argument is that while Corbyn was a bolder version of himself, other things – major things – also contributed to his election as leader: the financial crisis, Brexit, tuition fees; above all, the feeling on the part of many Labour voters that they had been left behind. My sons are 10 and 11 now, so I can still get away with telling them these stories but they’ll get to an age soon where they don’t want to hear it anymore, which is sad. Since he stepped down, Miliband has watched as the Tories stole many of “Red Ed’s” policies: Theresa May talked of the “just about managing”, while more recently Rishi Sunak has raised corporation tax, proposed a national infrastructure bank and is using tax to incentivise corporate investment. Miliband accused China of deliberately foiling attempts at a binding agreement; China explicitly denied this, accusing British politicians of engaging in a "political scheme".

Ed Miliband on five books that have shaped his life Ed Miliband on five books that have shaped his life

Still, the “Go Big” of the title argues that the scale of the crises we face must define the scale of the solution. 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. Ed Miliband] was applauded for his anti-boycott commitment – "we will resolutely oppose the isolation of Israel," he said – and for his assertion that no one in his party should question Israel's right to exist. If any Labour leader can claim to have won the argument and lost the election, it is surely Ed Miliband. Keir is somebody of great decency and integrity and the more the public can see of that the more they will recognise it.

Getting up to go, I’m struck by how strangely impersonal his sitting room is, as if all the nicknacks have been removed ahead of my arrival (perhaps Jonty, his aide, who for no good reason that I can see has sat in on our conversation, was tasked with this job, too). Miliband spoke at a large " March for the Alternative" rally held in London on 26 March 2011 to protest against cuts to public spending, though he was criticised by some for comparing it to the anti-apartheid and American civil rights movements. The frontbench is a more hospitable realm than the leader’s office: “You don’t feel you’re always carrying a Ming vase across the ice rink. Mr Miliband mounts a coherent challenge to orthodox views, encouraging his audience to think differently and laying the foundation of where the country needs to go.