Pakistan has long been one of our largest aid recipients, and between 2015 and 2019 Pakistan was the largest single recipient of direct British government-to-government bilateral aid. Yet its courts uphold forced marriages arranged by kidnapping.
“Collective responsibility, fortunately, is not retrospective”, says the Development Minister.
Asked about the UK’s £50m spend in the country, the Foreign Office minister adds that “we are looking to make sure that aid is better spent”.
Such initiatives are surely a deserving recipient of more of the UK’s overseas aid than China, which reportedly received £51.7 million last year.
Together, the United Kingdom and United States are leading the way in the fight to eradicate preventable diseases.
There is a limit to what can fairly and sensibly be achieved by raising other taxes and cutting public spending – especially when it comes to pay.
With a smart and effective aid budget working alongside British defence, trade and diplomacy, the UK can transform lives and bring prosperity not just to Britain, but to many around the world.
It will be essential to ensuring people can return to their homes, farmers to their fields, and children to their schools.
We have a legal duty to intervene if chemical weapons are used, and that is a duty we must not fail.
We need a Free World Trade Organisation – a democratic alliance to achieve energy independence and control crucial supply chains
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The UK needs a fresh, robust template. Central to it should be a differentiation between strategic and non-strategic areas.
Its development reputation has been tarnished, and nobody is able to define quite what the UK’s foreign policy actually is.
The overseas aid and Universal Credit decisions suggest that, for the first time in a while, the cause of fiscal conservatism is gaining the upper hand.
6.6 per cent is the average return made over the last ten years by British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, which is backed to fund private sector projects in less developed countries.