What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

He is a believer—in a way that Blair is not entirely—in Continental social democracy". S. The articles further elaborate Tim Waite a foreign office official had said

that much of [Her Majesty's government] and ministerial attention to Sri Lanka is due to the 'very vocal' Tamil diaspora in the UK numbering over 300000 who have been protesting in front of parliament since 6 April

as per the wiki leak site this was reported by Richard Mills a United States Embassy worker in UK.

He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. Miliband spent the next few years in various junior ministerial posts including at the Department for Education and Skills before becoming Environment Secretary. On the succession of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister (2007) Miliband was promoted to Foreign Secretary at 41 the youngest person to hold the post since David Owen 30 years earlier.