Sentences with phrase «david miliband»

Foreign secretary David Miliband, who also answered MPs» questions at the meeting, said Iraqi security forces were strong enough in many areas of the country to take over full responsibilities.

Speaking as the British Council was forced to cease operations at its offices in St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, David Miliband told MPs Russia's actions were «reprehensible, not worthy of a great country, and contrary to the letter and spirit of the legal framework under which the British Council operates».

David Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister charged with writing the Labour manifesto, admitted: «Our country remains deeply scarred by unequal life - chances,» citing the pay gap between men and women and for certain ethnic minorities.

While supporting Miliband, Labour stalwart Alan Johnson conceded Ed is not as able to connect as strongly» with people as David Miliband can.

In particular it is worth pointing out that David Miliband's notorious Guardian article may have convulsed the plotting classes within Labour, but it was a little empty in terms of new content.

Brown in turn survived the David Miliband plot, the James Purnell plot, the Blears / Flint plot, the Jowell / Darling plot and the Harriet Harman duck plot.

Mr Watson, who resigned as minister for digital engagement at the reshuffle, backs a call by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, for a ban on anonymous briefings to lobby journalists, and calls for internet bloggers to be given the same access to Westminster as the lobby.

On Monday David Miliband will officially launch his campaign in his South Shields constituency.

David Miliband will dismiss David Cameron's «big society», insisting what is needed is the «good society» typified by the community organisers he has been fostering with cash raised for his campaign.

He also offered help to David Miliband during the leadership elections.

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Labour sources say David Miliband is expected to run a campaign «drawing on the Blair play book» seeking to position the party in the centre ground of British politics and reconnect with voters on crime and immigration, whereas his brother is thought to want to broaden his base.

Mandelson told David Miliband on Remembrance Day last year that Labour could not win with Brown if nothing changed, as the then foreign secretary raised fears of a major defeat.

David Miliband said the assumption in diplomatic circles and among policy watchers had been that Rudd would be a candidate for the UN job.

Hewitt, health secretary under Tony Blair, echoed Hoon's insistence that they had not brought cabinet ministers into the loop about their plans as she maintained she had not spoken to the foreign secretary, David Miliband — seen as a possible successor to Brown — or any other member of the cabinet.

But David Miliband, who was working at the Foreign Office today, was the last cabinet heavyweight to make public comments and appeared to be the most unresounding.

His name is David Miliband and the sooner he is in place, the better!!!

What better reason than needing to achieve his father's vision and ensure David Miliband did not traduce it?

Elsewhere in this issue you'll find Iain Dale's fascinating profile of Ed and David Miliband, the power duo at the heart of new New Labour.

Former British foreign secretary David Miliband says Kevin Rudd «undoubtedly had the qualification'to be a candidate for the United Nations secretary - general post.

But given that you announced to us all that David Miliband had won the week before the election, why listen to you?

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

Tonight's Guardian scoop revealing that the speech that David Miliband would have given if he had been elected leader makes this one of the most difficult — and leaky — weeks for Labour since its election defeat.

Osborne, in response to a rare question from David Miliband: «The Right Honourable gentleman has interesting and important things to say about youth work programmes.

The line in the speech that will cause the most trouble for Ed Miliband is that David Miliband intended to create a commission on the deficit chaired by Alistair Darling and charged with creating a new set of fiscal rules, an admission that Labour got it wrong on the deficit which Ed Miliband has refused to give.

One striking detail from the piece is that David Miliband delivered the speech to his wife in the car as they drove away from the conference.

Former British foreign secretary David Miliband has said Kevin Rudd «undoubtedly had the qualification» to be a candidate for the United Nations secretary - general post.

While David Miliband remains the favourite, his odds were lengthened from 4/7 to 4/6.

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10.35 pm: Coffee House reports rumour that David Miliband may quit tomorrow.

David Miliband is the only credible candidate to be Prime Minister

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The leadership battle that follows Cook's resignation is essentially a two - horse race between the long - serving chancellor, Gordon Brown, and the man who Cook has surprisingly promoted to foreign secretary, David Miliband.

Unlike David Miliband — who was foreign secretary, after all — they are not lucrative enough to be rescued by a prestigious international institution.

David Miliband has warned Jeremy Corbyn he risks being the «midwife» of a Brexit which threatens people's living standards by failing to back continued membership of the single market.

And the BBC election website is saying that David Miliband is not part of the Labour negotiating team.

CLP nominations proved to be a good indicator of support last year, while in 2010 David Miliband earned the most CLP nominations, and subsequently secured the most support among members.

David Miliband has warned Jeremy Corbyn he risks being the «midwife» of a Brexit which threatens people's living standards by failing to back...

David Miliband finally issues a statement in support of Brown: «I am working closely with the Prime Minister on foreign policy issues and support the re-election campaign for a Labour Government that he is leading.»

David Miliband — who could once have been the «prince over the water» — has ruled himself out by literally putting an ocean between himself and the Labour party, swanning off to head up the International Rescue Committee in New York.

>> I think David Miliband has been performing rather well lately.

When David Miliband finally took to the stage yesterday afternoon, he promised free party memberships and a third of Shadow Cabinet jobs for women.

For many years the media speculated that those around Tony Blair wished to block Gordon Brown «s succession as Prime Minister, with such figures as Alan Milburn, John Reid and David Miliband being mooted as alternatives to Brown at various points.

No «renewal», «fundamental rethink» or «revitalisation» comes from David Miliband getting in and out of his limo to create the «alternative government».

David Miliband responded to their comments by insisting that much of the old controversy had now died away.

Labour leadership favourite David Miliband will put tackling the «jobs deficit» at the top of his agenda when he publishes his manifesto for Britain today.

But they also propelled David Miliband into the spotlight, as he was a staunch supporter of Mr Blair and voted for the invasion in March 2003.

But David Miliband said it felt like «two months».

It is a bit tricky for David Miliband.