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Ed Miliband embraces the brother he defeated for leadership of the Labour party
Britain
Ed Miliband is the new leader of British Labour
The Miliband the British press has nicknamed ‘Red Ed’ snatches victory from his older brother.
ED MILIBAND DRAMATICALLY seized the leadership of the British Labour party tonight, in an edge-of-the-seat victory that will have shattered his elder brother David’s political dreams.
The younger Miliband, who ran a left-leaning campaign and only emerged as favourite in the last 24 hours, hugged his brother as he declared himself proud and elated.
The battle for leadership of the party has been fraught and bitter, but Ed Miliband – who has been nicknamed ‘Red Ed’ in the rightwing press – is pledging to reunite the party.
The victory was by the narrowest of margins – he won 50.65 per cent of the vote compared to 49.35 per cent for his brother.
Observers this evening attributed his victory to a strong vote by the unions, while David has the majority backing of MPs, MEPs and party members.
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