Brothers Compete to Lead Labour Party in Britain by John Burns

With the winner to be announced Saturday, it seems a virtual certainty that the new leader will be one of two brothers who were running neck and neck: David and Ed Miliband, Oxford graduates in their 40s, former ministers in the Brown government and sons of a Marxist intellectual, Ralph Miliband, who reached Britain in 1940 on the last ship to leave Belgium ahead of advancing Nazi forces.

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To the extent that popular interest has been stirred, it has been by the spectacle of two brothers competing with each other. David Miliband, at 45 the older brother, seemed surprised and, though he denied it publicly, somewhat resentful when Ed Miliband, 40, announced his candidacy for a job that had been widely considered to be David Miliband’s for the asking.
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The brothers’ different political paths reflected the wider differences within the party. Both men have embraced a form of parliamentary politics that would have sat uneasily with their father. Their mother, Marion Kozak, a Polish-born migrant to Britain in the early 1950s, remains, at 76, politically active in Labour. Ralph Miliband, who died in 1994, is buried beside Karl Marx in London’s Highgate cemetery.