General Election 2015: Footage emerges of awkward teen 'Ted Miliband' leading Oxford student protest

The Labour leader is shown earnestly complaining about rent hikes when he was known as 'Ted'

Ed Miliband when he was known as "Ted" back in 1991

Most people probably cringe at the thought of footage of them from university emerging. Perhaps because it would show them necking drinks in a nightclub, performing with their terrible campus band, or if they're in the Cabinet, of them in their Bullingdon Club tailcoat.

But no such fears for Ed Miliband, who has been caught on camera discussing student rent rises at Oxford University.

The ITV footage from 1991 shows Miliband - then known as "Ted" - rocking a pudding-bowl haircut and complaining that 27 per cent rent rises in rents were unrealistic for students to pay.

"People wouldn’t get angry if it wasn’t unaffordable and it clearly is an unaffordable rise," he says.

Asked on Tuesday about the footage and his old nickname, Miliband said: "I was a Ted, I was a Ted, it feels like a long time ago, that’s probably because it was a long time ago."

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Miliband read Politics Philosophy and Economics at Corpus Christi College and graduated in 1992 with a 2:1.

He went on to get a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics, and also a better haircut.