David Miliband: “Those Afghan voices and the voices of Afghan civil society, men and women, who will also be heard at that conference…”

I haven't lost my youthful optimism.

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

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.

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