Marion, meanwhile, was a longstanding human rights campaigner and a signatory of the founding statement for activist group Jews for Justice for Palestinians. While the family was not religious, Ed Miliband told the JC in 2010 about how his Jewish roots nonetheless influenced his political outlook. He said: “There was a set of values my parents taught me about justice and making the world a better place, which are recognisably ‘left’ values but also owe something to the Jewish tradition.” Brought up in north London, Ed went to a local state school – Haverstock Comprehensive – before studying PPE at Oxford and quickly embarking...