foreign secretary
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The Guardian headlines on the new foreign secretary Ed Miliband vowing "to give UK 'global leadership' role on climate crisis" by "taking up the country's seat on the board at the World Bank".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Other shifts include Ed Miliband as foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper to the Department of Health, and Angela Rayner's reinstatement as Minister for Housing.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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
There is speculation that his brother David could return to UK politics as foreign secretary, perhaps via an appointment to the House of Lords.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
