Call it the Miliband doctrine. Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the start | Steve Bloomfield
Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianOpinionEd MilibandCall it the Miliband doctrine. Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the startSteve BloomfieldThis week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world Sat 12 Sep 2026 01.00 EDTShareAlmost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced his arrival at the Foreign Office by laying out what would become described as an “ethical foreign policy”.
- ▪Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianOpinionEd MilibandCall it the Miliband doctrine.
- ▪Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the startSteve BloomfieldThis week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy.
- ▪That’s good for the world Sat 12 Sep 2026 01.00 EDTShareAlmost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced his arrival at the Foreign Office by laying out what would become described as an “ethical foreign policy”.
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Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Nate Kitch/The GuardianOpinionEd MilibandCall it the Miliband doctrine. Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the startSteve BloomfieldThis week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world Sat 12 Sep 2026 01.00 EDTShareAlmost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced his arrival at the Foreign Office by laying out what would become described as an “ethical foreign policy”. The UK, he said, “must support the demands of other peoples for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves”.
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