Miliband on the Foreign Office

by | Jul 9, 2007


The FT has a big interview with David Miliband this morning (stories here on Iran and here on Britain as a ‘global hub’; transcript here). Most of the FT’s questions are country- or region-specific, but there’s an interestingly candid point at the very end, after the FT have asked him to sum up. Here’s his concluding comment from the transcript (emphasis added):

I know the previous prime minister was a huge admirer of the talent of the Foreign Office but I think, I don’t think he’d think he got the most out of it and I think part of my job is to make sure that Gordon Brown gets the most out of it and that’s what he wants me to do and that’s what I want to try and do.

1. He’s right. 2. It’s interesting that he says it.

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  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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