Simon McDonald
Lord McDonald of Salford was permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, 2015-2020, and is now a crossbench peer
April 2024
April 2023
Freedom needs to be better supplied than tyranny. If democracies stand firm, Putin’s war on Ukraine will fail
Simon McDonald, Christoph Heusgen, Stéphane Abrial, Jim Jones and Stefano StefaniniWe are diplomatic and military experts from across Europe. And we say give Ukrainians more arms, or risk a terrible stalemate, say Simon McDonald and others