article_snippet.sent: While refusing to guarantee the job to Miss Harman, Mr Miliband has given stronger assurance to shadow Chancellor Ed Balls that Mr Miliband will have the top job at the Treasury, however.
article_snippet.sent: Last month Mr Miliband said: 'I'll tell you who is going to be writing a Labour Budget –
article_snippet.sent: it's me and Ed Balls, not Alex Salmond in a million years.'
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Miliband defended it, saying at least it 'provoked' a conversation. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband also hit out at suggestions that Mr Miliband wife Justine Thornton had fallen into the 'trap' of being an accessory on the campaign trail, insisting his wife Justine Thornton cared deeply about the country. '
article_snippet.sent: I'd like to see anyone try and stop Justine taking part in this campaign because Justine'd tell anyone what for….She is not part of the padding, Justine is Justine own person.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband added that Justine was a 'very successful environmental lawyer' who has recently had Justine 'biggest case which was about defending Columbian farmers from the might of BP'.
article_snippet.sent: Asked about Mr Miliband complicated former love life – including a tryst with former Newsnight economics editor Stephanie Flanders - being played out in the press, Mr Miliband insisted it did not bother Mr Miliband. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband also admitted Mr Miliband main 'frustration' with Mr Miliband job was not being able to spend enough time with Mr Miliband sons, Daniel, 5 and Samuel, 4.
article_snippet.sent: Presenter Jenni Murray told Mr Miliband when Presenter Jenni Murray looked at Mr Miliband young sons, Presenter Jenni Murray thought of the pressures that had befallen Euan Blair.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband admitted: 'It's hard this, I know my first responsibility is to be his young sons dad
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband also insisted that Mr Miliband and Mr Miliband older brother were 'moving on' from the Labour contest, in which Mr Miliband was the surprise victor.
article_snippet.sent: Asked why, as Mr Miliband critics said, Mr Miliband had 'stabbed' Mr Miliband brother David in the front to go for the Labour leadership, Mr Miliband said: 'What drove me to it is a sense that the Labour Party needed to move on from New Labour.