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Ed Miliband

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Ed Miliband is a British politician and a member of the Labour Party.

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"Those using heating oil were more exposed to the market than those protected by the price cap."
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"The UK is playing our part in working with our international allies to address the disruption in oil markets."
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"With this action, the UK is playing our part in working with our international allies to address the disruption in oil markets."
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"We're going to have clean, homegrown power that we control."
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"We will not tolerate unfair practices, price gouging."
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"We want to strongly remind you of your commitments under the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association customer charter and code of practice."
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"To be clear, our firm expectation is that pricing remains fair, transparent and fully justifiable, reflecting genuine market conditions."
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"We want to strongly remind you of your commitments under the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association customer charter and code of practice."
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"You can rest assured that any options that can help to get the strait reopened are being looked at in concert with our allies."
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"Not only will they [the plans] take us further from peace, but they further undermine Israel's international standing."
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"Miliband condemned the publication of the tender as 'an unacceptable and destructive act'."
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"Our clean energy mission is the only route to getting off the rollercoaster of fossil fuels and take back control of our energy independence."
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"The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists."
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"to deter settlement expansion and prevent the development of E1"
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"ethnic cleansing was being carried out by settler terrorists"
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"A set of facts on the ground had been created to make the two-state solution unviable."
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"I do not believe that the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops and supermarkets."
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"settler terrorism is rampant and was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in parts of the West Bank."
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"He should set out a timeline for his departure."
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