‘Putting development at the heart of foreign policy’
Setting a pathway back to 0.7% while using our G20 presidency to champion debt relief and financial reform would honour Labour's internationalist tradition.
Labour Campaign for International Development
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‘Labour can and should lead the world on climate and nature’
Labour should use Britain's leadership of the G20 to enact a big, bold, global reset on international development, climate and nature.
‘Rebuilding Labour’s internationalism starts with genuine partnership’
Labour should show that Britain is at its best when it builds relationships that reflect our values.
‘Education is the engine of opportunity – and global cooperation is how we keep it running’
Education drives social mobility at home and progress abroad. With global aid under threat, Labour must renew international cooperation to deliver opportunity for every child.
‘Labour has an opportunity to lead in breaking the cycle of conflict and malnutrition’
As global insecurity grows, Labour has a chance to lead by tackling conflict and malnutrition together as interconnected security threats.
‘Britain’s G20 Presidency is Labour’s chance to lead a global reset’
We can no longer rely on aid to mask the inequities of the financial system, so we must fix it. The G20 presidency is our chance.
‘Global climate shocks demand global action: Britain’s role in building a liveable future for all’
World leaders must invest t measure, warn, and protect against extreme weather events and embed climate policy in everything they do.
Anneliese Dodds: The future of aid – A new international context
Former International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds argues that our approach to aid needs to adjust to new political expectations.
‘These lesser-noticed local election results show aid cuts are backfiring’
Aid cuts are a blow to Britain’s role on the world stage and to Labour's vote share, the Labour campaign for international development argues.
Spring Statement: ‘The Chancellor must not make foreign aid cuts worse’
I appreciate that tough decisions need to be made in the short term to balance the books, but our soft power is built on being a country that can be trusted to do the right thing for the right reasons – I’m banking on our Chancellor to do…
‘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 incredible staff and heard how the highest number of deaths in childbirth in that region are related to malaria. It was an…
The government’s reluctance to fund disease eradication puts us all at risk
The Global Fund is a worldwide campaign to defeat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. I am proud that, as a co-founder of the fund, the UK has had a huge role to play in working towards this goal. To date, 50 million lives have been saved…