Biografía

He and his brother David Miliband are both Labour MPs and both stood for the leadership of the party in 2010.

Miliband became a speechwriter and researcher for Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman in 1993.

As a teenager, he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio's Young London programme as one of its "Three O'Clock Reviewers", and worked as an intern to Tony Benn.

He was a violinist at school.

Likes "Desperate Housewives" and "Dallas".

I wasn't a teenage rebel. On Wikipedia it says I was the lead singer in a punk band. I've left it on there because I wish it was true but it's not.

From then on I think I was aware of a vulnerability in him and that made me less rebellious. He had a serious heart-bypass when I was 21 and died when I was 24.

Have you noticed how uncomfortable David Cameron is when he has to talk about responsibility at the very top? He found it easy to be tough on you. VAT went up. He called it a tough decision. Tax credits were cut. He said they couldn't be afforded. Help paying for childcare was hit. He said it was the only thing he could do. When you have had to pay, it's always necessary, it's always permanent, it can never be reversed. And yet at the same time they are straining at the leash to cut the 50p tax rate for people earning over £3,000 a week. Only David Cameron could believe that you make ordinary families work harder by making them poorer and you make the rich work harder by making them richer. It's wrong. It's the wrong priority. It's based on the wrong values.

Now there are hard lessons here for my party which some won't like. Some of what happened in the 1980s was right. It was right to let people buy their council houses. It was right to cut tax rates of 60, 70, 80 percent. And it was right to change the rules on the closed shop, on strikes before ballots. These changes were right, and we were wrong to oppose it at the time.

I'm not Tony Blair. I'm not Gordon Brown either. Great men, who in their different ways, achieved great things. I'm my own man. And I'm going to do things my own way.