David Miliband: “Do we together need to do more to match the moment? The answer is yes.”

Exactly the daily anguish

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

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

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.