In Parliament - Ed Miliband

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

No, I will not. Conservative Members should use this opportunity to tell the Chancellor to act. It is the right and fair thing to do. The case is unanswerable. If they do not act, they will have...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

It is good to see that the right hon. Gentleman has clambered back onto the career bandwagon. I thought that he was no longer a loyalist. The truth is that it was the Resolution Foundation that...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

I will not give way. Of course, being this Government, they always try to blame someone else, as we heard earlier. It is hard to keep track, but this is the roll call of people who the...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

I will not for the moment. The Government’s position on the windfall tax is part of a wider problem with this Chancellor and this Government. Just look at the political choices he is...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

No; I will make some progress. The final excuse—[Interruption.] I want to come to this because it is important, and I am perhaps anticipating the Chancellor. The final excuse is that it is...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

Oh, it will, says the hon. Gentleman from a sedentary position. Right, here we go. The problem is that the companies themselves say that is nonsense. BP’s chief executive officer, Bernard...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

No, I do not accept that, and I can tell the hon. Lady that 8,014 families in her constituency will benefit from the changes we are suggesting if she votes for them tonight. Let me tell her and...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I have been around politics for a long time, as the House knows, but I cannot remember—nobody in the House can remember—facing the kind of...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

I completely agree with the hon. Lady. At every step of the way, the Government have had the chance to act, and they have not done so.

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman anticipates a later part of my speech. That is the Conservative party today: it will blame anyone else and never take responsibility. The hon. Gentleman should have been...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

I will make some progress but then give way later. The Chancellor did not act when he could have done. In February he had another chance, as the largest energy price rise in our history, at 52%,...

Tackling Short-term and Long-term Cost of Living Increases

Commons debates

I beg to move an amendment, at the end of the Question to add: “but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech fails to announce a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas producers, in...

Tackling Climate Change

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The COP26 President knows that the Prime Minister caved in to those who wanted to block onshore wind—and I think the Minister for Energy knows it too. Let us try another. To tackle the cost...

Tackling Climate Change

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The recent climate assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was deeply worrying, saying that current global policies will lead to warming of more than 3°, but it also...

Energy Security Strategy

Commons debates

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, but I have to tell him that after all the hype and all the promises, his energy relaunch fails to live up remotely to the scale of the crisis...

Shale Gas Production

Commons debates

I congratulate the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) on securing this urgent question. He is right to try to smoke out the Government’s position, and it is no wonder he is...

Russian Oil Import Ban

Commons debates

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. We are united against Russian aggression. We stand together in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Let me echo his admiration for President...

COP26 Presidency: Priorities

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

An essential part of becoming less dependent on fossil fuels is reducing our demand for gas by making more progress on energy efficiency. On its own, insulating the 18 million draughty homes in...

COP26 Presidency: Priorities

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The House stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and the Minister’s COP presidency now faces an utterly changed context with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The crisis shows how...