Heather Stewart

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438 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Today in Focus · Ed Stone to elder statesman: the making of Ed Miliband · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

So we know that he's very interested in climate, which takes global cooperation and and

you know, seen from a certain perspective as the biggest issue facing the world today, right?

And if and if if the UK can take more of a leadership

role on that.

And there are also issues about, for example, global taxation, global development

very much economic issues.

The UK chairs the G twenty next year, which is the you know, this sort of big group of nations, including China and India and Brazil, as well as the US and the and the sort of other traditional major economies.

You know, is there a chance to try and talk about economic you know, collective efforts on that front?

And you'd imagine that Miliban i that would that would be the kind of thing he'd be very interested in.

I mean, he's certainly been incredibly rude about Trump when he was not in a a cabinet role, when Labour was in opposition.

I mean, as as a lot of Labour politicians would have been, right?

But I think the statement this week shows you that he's willing to take a stance against the US where that seems necessary.

it's difficult.

The UK always has to strike a very difficult balance our sort of security, defence, intelligence, all of that infrastructure's really closely entwined with the US.

So we do you know, we we can't just sort of walk away from them in any sense.

But I do think

certainly that he's not going to take a we have to get along with Trump whatever happens kind of line.

I I'm also reminded that Ed Miliban was not a big fan of the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.

He would have known Mandelson years back, obviously.

Um, and Keir Starmer and those around him thought that this was a great appointment because whatever we might think about Trump, it was super important to um get on with him, to suck up to him.

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