I don’t think I’ve ever been accused of being faddish. I’m more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. David Miliband Read Quote
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private – which is not the same as the public and the personal – but the public and the private… it’s very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public. David Miliband Read Quote
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. David Miliband Read Quote
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative – that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. David Miliband Read Quote
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. David Miliband Read Quote
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn’t. David Miliband Read Quote
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. David Miliband Read Quote
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we’ve always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate. David Miliband Read Quote
