Defence boost derails aid boost pledged in manifesto as Dodds dealt a blow
Keir Starmer has announced a boost to defence spending to 2.5% by 2027, with a “clear ambition” to…
Aid
‘Women and girls’ health must be a priority every day, not just on IWD’
I recently joined a delegation to Tanzania and Zanzibar where we visited maternal medical clinics run by some…
Labour will reverse “misguided” Foreign Office and DfID merger, Starmer says
Keir Starmer has pledged that a future Labour government would reverse the “misguided” merger carried out by the…
Scrapping DfID amid a global crisis is wrong. The Co-op Party will fight it
The Department for International Development, set up under the last Labour government to co-ordinate international aid and development,…
Why the DfID and FCO merger is a mistake
The Department for International Development (DfID) was created under a Labour government in 1997 as an independent department…
Corbyn condemns “grotesque abuse” amid claims British aid sent to Syrian extremists
Jeremy Corbyn has mounted a defence of Britain’s overall spending on international aid and demanded answers from Theresa…
Party members wanted Brexit vote at conference, LabourList survey shows
Delegates at party conference should have been given a vote on Brexit, LabourList readers have said. Just over…
John Woodcock and Alison McGovern: It was easy to forget Syria during the election. That cannot continue.
The crisis in Syria has been with us for so long that it has become easy to forget…
Corbyn is right to be angry over inequality and global poverty – but Labour will not win by pledging to smash the system
I agree with Jeremy Corbyn – things need to change. This government has failed to deliver for…
The priority must be aid to Aleppo and pressure for a ceasefire – Corbyn’s letter to Theresa May over Syria bloodshed
As MPs debated the suffering in Syria today Jeremy Corbyn today wrote to Theresa May demanding she take…
