“On the second day as my time as foreign secretary, I was told, 'look, one of your tasks is CHOGM 2024, which happened in Samoa, didn't go well.' To use sort of diplomatic speak, it ended up in a sort of punch up, a sort of verbal punch up about this whole issue.”

Ed Miliband · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04

Miliband described how he learned that the previous CHOGM in Samoa had gone poorly on his second day as foreign secretary.