As the country faces a horrifying wave of Covid-19, supplies of oxygen and other essentials are critically short.
Wallace has done well to win an exceptional defence settlement, but it may not be enough to fund all the Integrated Review’s ambitions.
Ministers clearly realise they do not have support in the Commons for this cut, and nor perhaps for the overall reduction to 0.5 per cent of GNI.
The Prime Minister defends the humanitarian protections on UK exports and British overseas aid to Yemen.
Success is most common where donors have focused in terms of the countries with whom they work on a long-term basis.
We should double down on Product Development Partnerships, which are alive and well in the field of public health.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.
The Union needs a cultural case to walk in step with the material one – Project Love, not Project Fear. Which means looking to the future.
This survey finding is unsurprising but, since the change will apparently require legislation, it’s important to record it.
“Britain is responding to a health emergency, but also an economic emergency, and every penny of public spending will rightly come under intense scrutiny.”
The country is the biggest recipient of British overseas support. We have a duty to use our influence to curb these barbaric practices.
There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.
And if that projection is to be effective, we will need to invest in our operating bases – and not just at traditional sites.