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23 May 2012updated 07 Sep 2021 12:22pm

DUMMY Exclusive: Ed Miliband

The Labour leader on his Jewish heritage in this week's New Statesman

By Alice Gribbin

In the New Statesman‘s special issue on Jews and Judaism, on newsstands from tomorrow, Ed Miliband recalls how he imbibed Jewish history from his mother and how his father embodied the British patriotism of a refugee.

Writing exclusives in the magazine, the Labour leader 

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