The Latest Breaking News from David Miliband

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

“When parties don’t have new ideas, they reach back for old ones, or imitate others,” a new report says

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

"Law is order, and good law is good order."Aristotle, 'Politics', 350 BCE

Exclusive: Labour chair Ellie Reeves and chancellor Rachel Reeves have become the most powerful British sibling duo since David and Ed Miliband served in Gordon Brown’s cabinet