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The former foreign secretary David Miliband has fuelled speculation that he is preparing a political comeback in Britain after he said nothing had yet been decided on his return and delivered a set piece foreign policy speech urging the UK to make greater cooperation with the EU.
Miliband lost the Labour leadership to his brother Ed in 2010 and resigned from the shadow cabinet. He stood down as an MP and moved to New York in late 2013 with his family to act as the chief executive of the International Rescue Committee.
There has been on/off speculation that he would return to British politics, but his family has settled in New York and it would be a wrench for the family to return.
But Miliband is a close ally of the shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and feels at ease with Keir Starmer’s leadership. No plan has yet been made about where he would seek a seat.
The House of Commons committee was real business, that's probably why Gordon had to miss the pantomime show.Britain has formally signed the new European Union treaty amid much ceremony in the cloisters of Lisbon's 500-year old Jeronimos Monastery - and in the absence of Gordon Brown.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, who was alone, was the very last to line up to sign a controversial Treaty of Lisbon, drafted to replace the EU Constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters two years ago.
In what is regarded as a major diplomatic gaffe, the Prime Minister was still appearing before a House of Commons committee as the EU's heads of state and government gathered in Portugal's capital to the strain's of Europe's proclaimed "anthem", the Ode to Joy.
"History will remember this day as a day in which new paths of hope were opened toward the European deal," José Socrates, the Portuguese prime minister, told the assembled leaders and guests.
The Prime Minister's trip to Lisbon - Portugal currently holds the EU's rotating presidency - has been mired in controversy after he tried to pull out of the signing which clashes with an appearance before a Commons committee.
Mr Brown has sparked charges of cowardice because he will not be photographed singing the treaty's dotted line with other EU leaders.
He has dismissed the "fuss" over his late arrival and denied that it made him look "marginal" or was designed to avoid bad publicity.
But as well as offending other leaders, Mr Brown has also stoked controversy by referring to the new EU Reform Treaty as a "Constitution" during interviews today.
Former Labour and Change UK MP Chuka Umunna has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying he was "wrong" to think "millions of politically homeless people... wanted a new party".
The Streatham MP said he had "massively underestimated just how difficult it is to set up a fully fledged new party without an existing infrastructure".
Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the government is right to consult on whether Covid vaccines for care workers could be made compulsory. He explains it has a duty of care to the elderly to consider such a move when dealing with such a deadly virus.
More than 650,000 deaths were registered in the UK in 2022 - 9% more than 2019.
This represents one of the largest excess death levels outside the pandemic in 50 years.
Though far below peak pandemic levels, it has prompted questions about why more people are still dying than normal.
It would seem a fair few MPs are superficially black men or superficially black women in the exact same way they are superficially male or superficially female. But sex is apparently a lifestyle choice, unlike skin colour.In a bombshell leaked audio recording of the event, Ms Huq is heard saying: “Superficially (Mr Kwarteng) is a black man….if you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn’t know he’s black.”
U.K. Police Investigation: They Knew of the Harms Covid Vaccines Were Causing in June and September 2021. Mark Sexton
ER Editor: There is clearly no justice left in the UK. This represents the latest in terms of former police officer Mark Sexton’s attempts to bring a criminal case against members of the UK government and others for harms caused to the public by the so-called vaccines. Here, two ministers are named and shamed – Nadhim Zahawi and Graham Brady.
Now we find that former secretary of state for education and then Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, has stepped down over tax irregularities, of all things.
Nadhim Zahawi Sacked By Rishi Sunak Over Tax Affairs
https://www.politicshome.com/news/artic ... k-tax-hmrc