foreign secretary
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Ed Miliband is the new foreign secretary, moving from the energy and net zero brief he has held since Labour returned to power.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
And he is not the first Miliband to hold the role: his brother David was foreign secretary for Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Miliband told the BBC it was the "honour of my lifetime" to become foreign secretary, a role his brother David held between 2007 and 2010.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
