David Miliband

Andy has created a can-do mentality. He is open, he's intelligent. Also he’s got this thing of ‘don't take no for an answer’.

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is a perfect example of how Trump’s cuts have backfired.

There's no excuse that, ‘oh, we don't know how to spend the money’. We've got randomised controlled trials (showing) how the money makes a difference. So it's bloody frustrating.

What we've got to say is 45 million children around the world are acutely malnourished. Britain should be part of a drive to solve that.

It is short-sighted, it's not good for Britain, and it's the wrong decision. I'm absolutely clear about that.

I think it's really welcome that they put the UK in a leadership position as to the priority it gives to fragile and conflict-affected fragile states.

My message is of course to read the IRC's publications because they provide such an evidence-based and innovative and cost-effective way of serving the most vulnerable and poverty-stricken parts of the world.

I haven't lost my youthful optimism.

The Iran war couldn’t have happened at a worse time, and it set off a chain of events that’s very damaging.

If you pull up the anchor in choppy seas, the boat rocks backward and forward, and the passengers get seasick.

As polling indicates, most of the British public now recognises that leaving the EU was a gross mistake.