
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.
Plus: After the kidnapping of this Christian girl, we should cut off aid to Pakistan. And: Muslims must face up the fact that terror is claimed in their name.
This week marks a bleak anniversary for those from the former princely state. But there’s a new corrective to the Tory pro-India tilt.
The US and UK, along with other countries in Europe, are fighting to ensure that no one is persecuted for their religious beliefs.
The overhaul of the civil service continues with a new (and notably less Eurocentric) head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
There is now no overall ‘white privilege’ in health or education or overall ‘BAME disadvantage’. These categories are outdated and unhelpful.
As a Party, we should hold out a helping hand to all those who still face the difficulties of daily life – who still cannot be their authentic selves.
Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.
There are three main factors at work – genetics, plus cultural and social factors. And it’s not possible at present to disentangle the mix.
The simple fact is that, despite its lofty goals, it repeatedly fails to live up to the values and standards it was set up to defend.
At the very same time that the Government is orchestrating a comprehensive security and defence review, that comment will have caused grave concern.
If Britain joined in a moment of self-doubt, it voted out as a confident, self-assured, optimistic, outward-looking and independent nation state.
It is no secret that some senior civil servants in the Foreign Office do not share the Prime Minister’s commitment to implementing the Truro Recommendations.
Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.
As the Foreign Secretary’s intervention on Hong Kong shows, Britain is a country which honours its responsibilities to former territories.