Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns
Poverty reduction drive all but halted across many nations as Bank calls for more money to tackle a ‘great reversal’
November 2023
‘Stop this obscenity’: could key UK summit turn tide on world hunger?
Andrew Mitchell wants next week’s food security conference to find ways to tackle waste and pests – and to show that aid works
September 2023
‘I saw how grotesquely unqualified so many of us were’: Rory Stewart on his decade as a Tory MP
When he arrived in 2010, he was surrounded by people who looked like him – and shared some of the same assumptions. Then, as the world changed in unimaginable ways, he watched in horror as the people in charge failed to change with it
March 2023
UK expected to ban TikTok from government mobile phones
Ban on Chinese owned video-sharing app marks U-turn from previous relaxed position
August 2022
‘They’d come to kill me’: The tax reformer hunted by the Taliban and abandoned by the Britain he served
A year after the fall of Kabul, Abdullah Sayyid is in hiding, his wife has been murdered and the Home Office appears to have lost his case file
July 2022
Foreign Office under Liz Truss has failed to regain global footing, report finds
Keir Starmer commits to reversal of ‘misguided’ DfID and Foreign Office merger
June 2021
UK aid cuts imposed with no transparency, says watchdog
Icai review cites lack of access to officials and papers to assess aid budget since Foreign Office-DfID merger
March 2021
Cameron criticises Johnson and May over aid cuts and security oversight
Former PM predicts ‘big inquiry’ into Covid response and defends EU referendum decision
February 2021
Be 'muscular' and drive green recovery, Cameron tells Johnson
Free market can be overruled if necessary to create post-Covid growth, ex-PM advises former rival
September 2020
Partisan views on Rwanda
Rule, Britannia! row risks riling rightwingers
Britain's aid budget could soon become little more than a slush fund for business
Clare Short
UK will lead world on tackling famine and Covid with new department, says Raab
August 2020
Recognise DfID expertise and influence in FCO merger, Raab urged
Leadership of merged DfID evidence of ‘hostile takeover’ by FCO, say critics
Human rights in focus
The fashion industry echoes colonialism – and DfID's new scheme will subsidise it
Meg Lewis
DfID scheme accused of 'putting UK aid in pockets of wealthy companies'
July 2020
DfID merger and overseas aid cuts will weaken UK influence, Labour warns
The Guardian view on the disappearing aid: a shake up with lethal consequences
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