Ed Miliband Pictures Show Defeated Leader Leaving Home With Family Following Election Result
Pictures Of Ed Miliband And Family Show Defeated Leader In Surprisingly Chipper Mood
Ned Simons— The Huffington Post UK
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Ed Miliband has emerged from his North London home following Thursday's unexpected election defeat. It has to be said he looks rather chipper considering the scale of Labour's loss.
The photos, which show him alongside his wife Justine and their two sons Daniel and Samuel, are similar in tone to the famous shots of Gordon Brown leaving Downing Street in 2010 with his family.
Ed Miliband leaves home
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How it was: Gordon and Sarah Brown leave Downing Street in 2010 with their children John and Fraser
Ed Miliband took "absolute and total responsibility" for the election result in his resignation speech: "I am so sorry for all of those colleagues who lost their seats - Ed Balls, Jim Murphy, Margaret Curran, Douglas Alexander and all the MPs and indeed candidates who were defeated.
"They're friends, colleagues and standard bearers for our party, they always have been and they always will be."
He continued: "Britain needs a strong Labour Party. Britain needs a Labour Party that can rebuild after this defeat so we can have a government that stands up for working people again.
"And now it's time for someone else to take forward the leadership of this party.
"So I am tendering my resignation, taking effect after this afternoon's commemoration of VE Day at the Cenotaph.
"I want to do so straight away because the party needs to have an open and honest debate about the right way forward without constraint."
Below are the most likely candidates to try and succeed Miliband.
Ed Miliband's Potential Successors
Andy Burnham(01 of06)
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A senior Labour source told Mehdi Hasan, formerly of HuffPostUK that Burnham, who also stood in 2010, "will be the unions' candidate tomorrow". (credit:Yui Mok/PA Wire)
Yvette Cooper(02 of06)
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Unlike her husband Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary didn't run in 2010 for the party leadership. Now could be her chance and her husband would be unlikely to challenge her. (credit:Nick Ansell/PA Wire)
Liz Kendall(03 of06)
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Kendall, the Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, was deemed to be launching a leadership bid when, in January, she told The House magazine the private sector had a role in the NHS because "what matters is what works". (credit:John Stillwell/PA Wire)
Chuka Umunna(04 of06)
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After boosting his own majority by more than 10,000 in this election, Shadow Business Secretary Umunna must want to move on to bigger things. Having entered parliament 2010, he doesn't have the damaging association with New Labour that Miliband and Balls did.
Chuka Umunna increases his majority from 3k to 14k... A strong contender to lead Labour regardless of this extra haul of votes
If Miliband senior sees a by-election he likes, he could return to parliament and seek to be his party's leader in time for 2020. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Dan Jarvis(06 of06)
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Ex-army officer Jarvis has only been in parliament since 2011. But his military background is the perfect answer to the 'What have you done outside politics?' question that haunted Ed Miliband. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)