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Simon McDonald

Lord McDonald of Salford was permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, 2015-2020, and is now a crossbench peer

April 2024

  • Peers vote in the House of Lords on Rishi Sunak’s UK-Rwanda immigration treaty, 22 January 2024.

    Peers know the Rwanda bill is flawed and dangerous. We must use every power to oppose it

    Simon McDonald
    Standing firm on our amendments would mean the Commons backs down or loses the bill, says Lord McDonald, former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office

April 2023

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit to UK - 09 Feb 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by EyePress News/REX/Shutterstock (13759844ab) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet Ukrainian troops being trained to command Challenger 2 tanks during his first visit to the UK since the Russian invasion of Ukraine at a military facility in Lulworth, Dorset Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit to UK - 09 Feb 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 Stefanini
    We 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
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