David Miliband comes over all coy over rumours he could end up as a Labour government’s ambassador in Washington

David Miliband comes over all coy over rumours he could end up as a Labour government’s ambassador in Washington

Would the man who was once touted as one of the most talented politicians in the party accept a role in a futuregovernment, asked the BBC. Would he come back from exile in New York, where he has run the International Rescue Committee charity for the last 10 years, to run for the British parliament again asked the Guardian.

Yet Labour, which seems on course to win the next UK general election, is dropping big hints that it might revisit any appointment to the Washington role made by Sunak. Labour leader Keir Starmer is believed to want his own man or woman in the job at such a critical time in UK-US relations and with geopolitics in such flux.

On the evening after his Irish Embassy speech, Miliband made yet another public appearance, this time to give a talk at Nesta, a charity and foundation focused on climate change, child poverty and health issues. Twice more he was asked about his future. Twice more he refused to answer. “I think that bears greater scrutiny,” he said, adding that people in the UK and Europe who were wondering about a return to power by Trump could only “wait and cross your fingers”.

“You could double spending on intelligence and diplomacy for the same cost as a 10 per cent increase in the defence budget,” he said, suggesting that this might bear greater fruit for Britain in a “multi-aligned” world where countries maintain multiple alliances.

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