David Miliband

David Wright Miliband is a British Labour Party politician who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother, Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.

Born in London, Miliband is the elder son of Jewish immigrants, Belgianborn Marxist sociologist Ralph Miliband and Marion Kozak from Poland. He was given the middle name of Wright after the American sociologist C. Wright Mills, a friend of his father. He has said I am the child of Jewish immigrants and that is a very important part of my identity. Both his Polish Jewish paternal grandparents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. His paternal grandfather, Samuel, a trained leather worker, served in the Red Army in the PolishSoviet War of 19191921 before moving to Belgium. His paternal grandmother, Renia , also moved to Belgium, where she first met Sam, and the couple married in 1923. The German invasion of Belgium in May 1940 split the Miliband family in half Ralph and father Samuel fled to England, while Ralphs mother Rene and baby sister Nan stayed behind for the duration of the war. They were not reunited until 1950. His mother, a human rights campaigner and early CND member, surviv

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