David Miliband does have a nice line in ironic understatement.
Asked if he thought Philip Green, the mercurial businessman who owns much of Britain’s High Street, was the right man to help David Cameron’s Conservatives cut the budget deficit, he said: “Well, I think Monaco is an odd place from which to scrutinise the British public sector.”
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