David Miliband and entourage prove costly for International Rescue Mandrake is sufficiently old-fashioned to believe, as the philanthropist Gina Miller does, that charities are for giving to and not taking from. David Miliband is expected, however, to cost the International Rescue charity in New York around £1million in his first year, taking into account his own £300,000 salary and relocation and other costs, together with the costs of his imported sidekicks, Ravi Gurumurthy and Ollie Money, respectively his former political strategist and PR man. Still, Miliband has never come cheap: in one year as the MP for South Shields in South Tyneside, he grossed £288,000 in outside earnings on top of his parliamentary salary of £65,000. The International Rescue charity, which is generously supported by Miliband's old friend George Soros, declines to talk about remuneration packages. "I'm afraid we don't disclose compensation packages of staff members," its spokesman informs me in an email. Charities in the States are, however, required to file tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, which includes the salaries of top executives. Such returns are by fiscal year, which for International Rescue begins Oct 1 and ends Sept 30. The returns are filed to the IRS in the first half of the subsequent year. Miliband, who went to his first rodeo last week "with the legendary Twirp Anderson," declines to comment, but should his brother Ed be toppled as Labour leader, it will not go down well with the charity if he hot-foots it back home. International Rescue's spokesman confirms Miliband "brought two people with him," and adds, for good measure, a "smiley face." Three smiley faces would have seemed more appropriate.