David Miliband's career - in pictures

David Miliband is to step down as an MP with immediate effect to take up a New York based charity job Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

2002: Miliband as the New Labour candidate for South Shields Photograph: Paul Kingston/North News & Pictures

2003: Miliband visits Maple Tree Lower School in his capacity as school standards minister Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Family portrait of Ralph, David and Ed Miliband on the Guardian Weekend magazine cover Photograph: Guardian

2007: Tony Blair speaks to Miliband, the then environment secretary, during a climate change meeting Photograph: Alessia Pierdomenico/PA

2007: The then foreign secretary, David Miliband, and his younger brother, the then secretary for the Cabinet Office, Ed Miliband, leave 10 Downing Street following their first cabinet meeting with Gordon Brown Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

2007: Brown and Miliband at the Labour party conference at Manchester Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

2007: Miliband delivers his speech at the Labour party conference in Bournemouth Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

2007: The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and Miliband listen to George W Bush and Gordon Brown during a joint news conference at Camp David Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters

2008: Miliband holds a banana as he arrives at the Labour party conference in Manchester Photograph: UPPA/Photoshot

2008: Free bananas, with a sticker of David Miliband, are given away to delegates at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

2008: Miliband at diversity night at the Labour party conference in Manchester Photograph: Mark Large/ANL/Rex Features

2008: Miliband meets children from the Beijing No 8 middle school during his visit to China Photograph: Dan Chung/The Guardian

2008: Miliband meets Georgians from the South Ossetia conflict zone in a refugee camp outside Tbilisi Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

2009: The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, reacts with Miliband before a Nato foreign ministers meeting in Brussels Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

2009: Clinton and Miliband leave after speaking to the press at the state department in Washington Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

2010: Labour leadership candidates Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Diane Abbott, Andy Burnham and David Miliband drawing lots in the green room for the order they will be speaking in a Labour leadership debate on BBC Newsnight Photograph: Katie Collins/PA

2010: Miliband looks downward as he talks to journalists during the general election campaign in Bristol Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

2010: David and Ed Miliband pause for thought at a Labour leadership hustings in Leeds Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

2010: Ed Miliband embraces David after being elected new leader of the Labour party in Manchester Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

2010: Clinton and Miliband try Canadian maple taffy during the G8 foreign ministers' meeting in Gatineau, Quebec Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

2010: Miliband with Major General Jun Yang during a visit to a UN peacekeeping centre in the town of Langfang, near Beijing Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

2012: Miliband at a youth unemployment summit in his South Shields constituency and speaking with young adults at The Cave youth centre Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian