
Edward Leigh: If Pakistan won’t crack down on the kidnapping of young girls, we should cut off aid
The country is the biggest recipient of British overseas support. We have a duty to use our influence to curb these barbaric practices.
The country is the biggest recipient of British overseas support. We have a duty to use our influence to curb these barbaric practices.
The greater the incentives for people traffickers, the more lives will be lost. The Australian approach is morally right.
Criminal behaviour under the new law would be based on offence caused, rather than intended – a significant difference to England and Wales.
The UK’s role is limited, as we will not and cannot put our own people into this theatre – but we must do what we can.
The real risk of all this is that it gets praised – but is then quietly filed away. What needs to happen is a change of Foreign Office culture.
Despite only a short democratic history, the world’s largest Muslim nation could be a powerful force for pluralism and tolerance.
The Foreign Secretary had already impressed me with his focus on human rights. Now he has created new hope for Christians around the world.
The former Chief Rabbi felt he had to speak up against the Labour leader for “legitimising the public expression of hate”.
I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.
She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”
I left feeling proud that as a UK taxpayer my money is being put to such good use, but we mustn’t pat ourselves on the back just yet. Our work is not done.
There is a specific problem in Pakistan, especially where the majority of the Christians and Hindus respectively live, about non-Muslims being viewed as inferior.
There is no foreign policy that could appease the likes of the Manchester terrorists. Islamists damn us if we intervene, and damn us if we don’t.
We need a mass of recommendations less than we need our institutions to do their job properly.
Many feel British and have a Commonwealth attachment – but worry that the Brexit campaign is run by UKIP.