Vol 67 No 21 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
By appointing Ed Miliband a former Labour leader as Foreign Secretary he has handed day-to-day diplomacy to a heavyweight and kept only the set-piece summits for himself (AC Vol 67 No 16 Whitehall's strategy collides with reality)...
SENEGAL: Former President Macky Sall has taken his pitch for the UN Secretary-General post to British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivering a speech seen by Africa Confidential at a meeting held as we went to press...
Vol 67 No 16 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Culture Secretary and then Health Secretary in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown governments Burnham was Labour's health and home affairs spokesman in opposition under Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn before winning the mayorality of Greater Manchester in 2017...
Picking former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary a two-time Energy and Climate Change Secretary who had been a vocal advocate for ‘Net Zero' and climate finance should boost Britain's diplomatic heft in Africa...