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.
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.
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.
It was always short-sighted to suggest aid spending prioritised helped foreign people at the expense of those struggling in Britain.
The UK needs a fresh, robust template. Central to it should be a differentiation between strategic and non-strategic areas.
The Chancellor and Home Secretary need to ensure our overseas aid and asylum policies are generous and humane.
Its development reputation has been tarnished, and nobody is able to define quite what the UK’s foreign policy actually is.
This is not just a priority for our foreign and overseas development policy – people face persecution and even violence right here in Britain.
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.
His report mischaracterises and simplifies the recommendation of a government commission on which I sat.
“If we don’t provide support for people in Afghanistan they’re ultimately going to find their way into Europe”, warns the former DfID Secretary.
By reminding backbenchers of manifesto commitments on debt control, he is squaring up for battles to come over the spending review.
The voice of the law abiding majority needs to be heard loud and clear in the wake of Sunday’s events: we won’t tolerate this.
Together, the United Kingdom and United States are leading the way in the fight to eradicate preventable diseases.