Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Returning to the UK after Christmas in January 2004 Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers as a replacement for Ed Balls with specific responsibility for directing the UK's long-term economic planning. By 9 June the deadline for entry into the Labour leadership contest Miliband had been nominated by just over 24% of the Parliamentary Labour Party double the amount required. In March 2009 whilst Secretary of State Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid where he was ambuEd Milibandd by actor Pete Postlethwaite who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station was given the go-ahead by the government.

As Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 28 June 2007. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.