The Latest Breaking News from David Miliband

Sudan has topped the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row

COMMENT: As humanitarian need hits record levels, aid budgets are being cut and redirected, says David Miliband, the president of the International Rescue Committee. A clear strategy is needed to ensure the poorest and most fragile communities are not abandoned

With apparent support for airport expansion and fossil fuel exploration, it may look as if the party’s leaders are abandoning climate pledges, but it’s just pantomime, says writer Richard Power Sayeed

The British leader says foreign aid will suffer a 40 percent cut to bolster defence spending in light of a ‘new era’.

Given that not even Tony Blair would be a Blairite now, it’s probably time to retire it, writes Zoe Williams

Although it will impinge on the consciousness of few, the appointment of the next UK ambassador to the US is growing into a crisis. It would not do for the involvement of Peter Mandelson in anything to pass without some controversy, but the difficulties emerging around his scheduled departure to…

Our next man – or woman – in Washington will need all the political and diplomatic nous they can muster. Who will Keir Starmer pick and can he win over the next US president?

David Miliband, Peter Mandelson and Cathy Ashton thought to be on shortlist for diplomatic role

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