Missed the David Miliband speech at the Fabian fringe? The Foreign Secretary spoke on "Can Foreign Policy Be A Labour Strength" at a packed meeting at Manchester Town Hall.

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The foreign secretary argued that for the next 20 or 30 years america would remain the superpower of the world. But, he said no country in the modern world could get its own way on its own. And that's a big change for the world – most of human history there's either been a balance of power or a single strong state. "What's interesting about the modern world is you need a comitment to share power and cooperate if you need stability. America is our most important bilateral relationship."

 What was important for Britain is our relationship with europe was not an alternative, it's a way of strengthening it and we would have a massively weaker relationship with China without it, he said