The chaos theatre of Corbyn’s leadership may be making all the headlines now, but this autumn the Government will face fights over cuts.
The right policy is to take very few refugees from Syria – and to cut immigration from elsewhere – but to help them with a lot of taxpayers’ money at source.
“The people most responsible for the terrible scenes we see are President Assad, the butchers of ISIL and the people running these criminal gangs.”
Some – but not enough – economic development has the effect of making migration a realistic option.
I believe the time has come for a broadening in the uses of the aid budget and a critical rethink of the way in which the department operates.
The FIFA bribery revelations may be hogging the headlines right now, but the misuse of aid money is the bigger scandal by far.
Earlier laxness suggested that ring-fencing DfID was about looking good, rather than doing good.
The SNP are now entitled to substantial committee representation. If EVEL is to mean anything, it must extend beyond the chamber.
In 2005, the then 15 members of the European Union agreed to reach a 0.7 per cent aid target by 2015. Apart from us only four EU countries have actually delivered.
It is in our interests to keep other nations free – they boost our trade and help to keep us safe.
The two battered main parties would do well to speak honestly about the challenges and costs we face.
The danger of ‘big ideas’ in international development is that, sustained by external resources, they can grow unchecked by reality
The Commonwealth Development Corporation is now practically defunct. We need an organisation that will properly represent British interests abroad.
Osborne simply has no political room to do anything very much. The big decisions will come after the election – whoever is in office.
The developing world is bursting with enterprising would-be business owners keen to trade their way out of poverty.