Harriet Baldwin: Cutting foreign aid is a blatant breach of our manifesto pledge – and I will not vote for it

How will we feel about cutting aid if we see the kind of shocking scenes of starvation that started Live Aid in the 1980s?

Fiona Hodgson: While the election rages on, we have chance this month to reduce starvation and hunger worldwide

40 million people are currently in urgent need of food assistance. The G7 summit at the end of May has an opportunity to act.

Martin Parsons: For Syria to have a future, the West must stop jihadist genocide as well as Assad’s war crimes

Action must go beyond ISIS to prevent other, similarly-minded, jihadist groups prospering.

May’s Scotland gambit – to place EU departure at the heart of her Unionist appeal

Her speech yesterday sought to turn a weakness into a strength- by projecting Britain as a globally-engaged, progressive, aid-friendly country.

Nadhim Zahawi: I found myself banned from Trump’s America. But I want his state visit to go ahead – and to tell him why he’s mistaken.

I fear that the President has poured fuel on the fire of extremism; and created enemies, rather than winning friends.

Graeme Archer: Murdered gays. Banned Jews. But stick to those anti-Trump protests, comrade – and avert your eyes.

Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.

Trump’s state visit. If Xi Jinping can make one, then so should he.

But neither the American President’s concession to Britain nor the question of double standards are likely to deter some Parliamentarians.

Trump bans ConservativeHome columnist from the United States

Nadhim Zahawi tells us that the President’s words and deeds will cause serious damage to the anti-ISIS struggle.

Michael Fallon: As this New Year begins, let’s honour the work of our brave servicemen and women

This morning, around 4,500 British servicemen and women will be serving our country across the globe. They are taking part in 25 operations in almost 30 countries.

Daniel Gibbs: Margaret Thatcher, environmentalist

She had a profound impact on the ownership, focus and language of the debate about climate change and global warming.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: We’re already doing our bit on aid. Now other countries must do more.

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.

Jeremy Lefroy: Flawed and failed – not to mention immoral. The EU policy of deterring migrants by drowning them.

Search and rescue operations must be resumed to help prevent further horrors like those we’ve seen this week.

Jacob Zenn: The media must not allow itself to be used as a mouthpiece by terrorists

ISIS and others are adept at using the West’s mass media as a tool to propagandise and recruit. The media must resist.

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