The UK should lead the call for an independent inquiry into the Beirut port explosion
Following three days of frantic searching through the rubble at the port of Beirut, rescue teams finally gave…
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,…
The betrayal of the Make Poverty History generation
15 years ago today, I stood in The Meadows of Edinburgh as over a quarter of a million…
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…
Come together, right now: a review
The government has officially given up on its coronavirus tracing app in yet another embarrassing U-turn that anyone…
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…
Boris Johnson’s “world-beating” projects
Since 2015, the UK has been legally committed to spending 0.7% of gross national income on official development…
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…
Labour vows to “oppose retreat from global stage” as PM axes DfID
Labour has vowed to “oppose retreat from the global stage” as the Prime Minister announced that the government…
The UK must provide global leadership at the UN for the world’s refugees
As a leading contributor to the UN budget, and one of only five permanent members on the Security…
