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…
department for international development
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 government should reverse its disastrous decision to scrap DfID
The announcement that the government plans to merge the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for International…
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…
Exclusive: Labour will not “mirror” government plans to scrap DfID
Labour will not “mirror” new government plans put forward by Boris Johnson this week to scrap the Department…
Scrapping DfID is shameful. We’ll fight for the UK’s life-saving aid
Tuesday was a truly awful day – the fourth anniversary of the murder of our dear friend, Jo…
Pitch perfect
It didn’t take long for that entirely predictable U-turn on free school meals during the summer holidays to take place.…
Kate Osamor: It’s time for a truly feminist approach to international development
Part of a LabourList series on International Women’s Day 2018. Over a hundred years ago, the international labour movement…
Kate Osamor: Mordaunt must restore integrity to DFID after the sacking of power-hungry Priti Patel
This is the full statement published by Kate Osamor, shadow secretary of state for international development, following the…
Diane Abbott: Tories hosting an anti-corruption summit is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop
Today, with considerable fanfare, David Cameron hosts the UK Anti-Corruption Summit. Like the professional public relations man he…
