Ed Miliband humiliated at PMQs over Russell Brand link – 'should be ashamed!'

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12:45, Wed, Nov 11, 2026 Updated: 12:51, Wed, Nov 11, 2026 Ed Miliband was left squirming as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch slammed his former alliance with Russell Brand. The…

Ed Miliband was left squirming as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch slammed his former alliance with Russell Brand. The shamed comedian was jailed this week for rape and three sexual assaults.

The Conservative leader said the Foreign Secretary had shown poor judgement on a range of issues, including delaying the exploration of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, and opposing the Rosebank oil field – as well as his decision to appear on Brand's YouTube show in 2015.

Speaking in Parliament as she questioned Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Mrs Badenoch said: “He called Rosebank ‘climate vandalism’. But then he also thought cosying up to Russell Brand would make him prime minister. So I don’t think we need to trust his judgement.”

Labour MPs tried to heckle Mrs Badenoch, shouting “shame”. She responded: “They are saying ‘shame’, Mr Speaker. They are right, the Foreign Secretary should be ashamed.”

Mr Miliband appeared on the sex predator’s YouTube news show in 2015. At the time, Brand was reinventing himself as a Left-wing activist, and wrote a book called Revolution in 2014.

Mr Miliband was Labour leader at the time and hoped that Brand's endorsement would help him win over younger voters. It was seen as a coup by Left-wing journalist Owen Jones, who wrote in The Guardian following the interview: “However much bluff and bluster the Tories now pull – maybe more playground abuse from David Cameron, who called Brand a 'joke' – his endorsement of Labour in England and Wales will worry them.”

Mr Miliband said earlier this year: “Of course, knowing what I know now – and I was not aware of these allegations at the time about Russell Brand – I wouldn’t have done that interview, and I regret doing it.”

Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell offered her own defence of the 2015 interview this week. She said: “We weren’t in the social media age at the time, so where you could maybe search things up and see allegations or things about somebody at the time.”

She joined Twitter in 2009, the same…

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