Alexander Miliband

State Portrait of Premier Miliband, 2172

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**Alexander Stephen Miliband** (2124-2178) was a British Politician who served as the sixteenth Premier of Neo-Europe, from 2171 until his murder in 2178, as a member of the Liberal Party. Inheriting the threat of terrorism, as well as subsequent issues with the Scavravirus and economic turmoil, he had a very difficult job as Premier, before being murdered by his de-facto successor, Supreme Marshal Ekrim Tekin.

## Early Life

Alexander Miliband was born in Sheffield to parents Gordon (2084-2158) and Claire (2089-2175), Nee Nikosi. As a member of the British political family of the Milibands, he grew up with relative wealth. His family were relatively well-known.

Unlike much of his family, Miliband did not originally a career of politics, instead joining the Neo-European Armed Forces in 2142 after completing his Advanced Education, meaning he did not go to university.

## Military Career

He was stationed at the Falklands, specifically Base Stuttgart, from 2144, meaning he was never a part of NESR's military.

In the Third World War, he fought in the Patagonian Campaign, upon which he was promoted to **Lieutenant**.

By 2149, he was promoted to a **Brigadier** and played an influential role in the Liberations of Birmingham and London before being dispatched to the Medetareannean to quell the general unrest found there.

## Early Political Career

Following the War, he resigned from the military and, as a semi-popular figure of the War, decided to start a political career after persuasion from his family, mainly his parents. From 2152 to 2156, he was **Mayor** of **South Yorkshire** as an independent but socially liberal candidate, before officially joining the Liberal Party in 2155.

### Election to the Commons

Miliband decided to run in the Commons in the 2156 Election, being elected as a Deputy for his home city of Sheffield, beating the incumbent SDU candidate **Chandray Laghari**.

Current Liberal Party Leader **Valentina Espina** gave him a place in the shadow cabinet in 2157, as Shadow Education Secretary.

### Leader of the Liberal Party

In 2163, Espina lost a vote of no-confidence among Liberal Party Deputies and resigned, paving the way for a leadership campaign. Miliband

## Murder

On [date], just over a month after his declaration of Martial Law, Marshal Tekin stormed into a Cabinet meeting and claimed Miliband was not doing enough to deal with the serious situation - so he tried him there and then, shooting the Premier and taking his place at the meeting.

Miliband's bloodied corpse would eventually be thrown out of the window into the River Thames, where it would be recovered a day later

## Personal Life

He had two sisters, Meghan (2119-2184) and Rebecca (2121-2231). Meghan was a Member of the British Assembly and was in the state cabinet, while Rebecca moved to Nordica in the 2150s. Her influence came after Miliband's death, where she inspired much of the other Neo-Europeans living in exile.

He married Eirish journalist Nora O'Brien (2128-2178) in 2161 after four years of dating. They had three children together: Edward (2162-2178), David (2165-2178) and Arlene (2170-2178). All four of them were killed only hours after Alexander in their personal home. This was not likely on Tekin's orders, but if he did know about it he did not stop it from happening.

## Political Position

Miliband's views are often described as 'liberally centrist;' he supported a mixed economy with socially liberal views. Due to his actions made in the fight against the Scavravirus, many have called him a dictator and authoritarian, despite his frequent assertions that they were done out of necessity.

## Legacy

Unsurprisingly, Miliband was vilified under Tekin. Examples of this can be seen in the media produced in this period, such as the 2203 film '*The Night of Liberty*' or the 2199 Doctor Who episode '*Premiership of the Daleks.*' The former claims to be a realistic, dramatised retelling of the events of 2178, depicting Miliband as a cynical maniac against the heroic Tekin, while the latter suggests Miliband was in league with the Daleks and effectively their agent, planted as Premier to destroy Neo-Europe from within, in order to pave way for a full Dalek invasion. Predictably, Tekin and the Doctor join forces to fight against Miliband and the Daleks. In general use, Miliband was used to represent traitors of Neo-Europe and those who opposed Tekin - used as an example, in that way.

Conversely, in the Neo-European underground as well as the diaspora in Nordica, he was seen as a tragic, almost martyr-like figure who was unlawfully killed while defending Neo-Europe. Others saw him as a flawed man, likely the wrong man for the time, who made poor decisions to combat a virus which led to not only his own downfall, but also the downfall of his entire nation.