Tag: david cameron
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David Cameron must weave a better story than his fairytale ‘golden thread’
This article was originally published on The Guardian website. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author. The UN high-level panel’s report on the new development agenda after 2015 is a work of some profundity. Sceptics have been taken aback at the radical nature of the suggested transformation. But they may be
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G8 Summit: Gordon Brown worked harder than David Cameron – and at the G8, it shows
In today’s Telegraph, Kirsty McNeill, LCID Advisory Board Co-Chair, contrasts the Cameron’s weak efforts at this year’s G8 with the achievements of Blair and Brown at previous summits: Since the UK last hosted the G8 in 2005, the keys to Downing Street have changed hands twice – once to an occupant who was in his
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David Cameron must use the G8 summit to forge a global consensus to fight tax evasion, says Baroness Kinnock
David Cameron must use the G8 summit to forge a global consensus to fight tax evasion, says Baroness Kinnock Wales Online has reported that our Honourary Co-President Baroness Glenys Kinnock has called on David Cameron to use the G8 summit to crack down on tax avoidance. Click the link to read the full article.
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To combat tax avoidance, tough talk is not enough
To combat tax avoidance, tough talk is not enough The prime minister has given us plenty of tough talk about cracking down on tax avoidance. Whether he can deliver a concrete agreement will be a crucial test of his leadership. In 2005, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown emerged from the Gleneagles summit with a concrete
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Richard Darlington writes for New Statesman on why Cameron has two weeks to save the world
Richard Darlington writes for New Statesman on why Cameron has two weeks to save the world Richard Darlington, former Special Advisor and now Head of News at IPPR, examines the challenges facing David Cameron during the G8 and questions the impact of today’s BigIF summit in Hyde Park.
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Questions grow over DfID’s ‘ring-fenced’ budget
Rumours over the security of DfID’s budget have been mounting over the last few weeks. Today in the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting raises questions over the pressure coming from the Right for Cameron’s government to change their approach to the international development budget. The Coalition Government came to power promising to ring-fence international development spending, yet
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Aid is a marathon not a sprint
Douglas Alexander writes in The Guardian today that ‘the coalition has failed to commit fully to international aid, yet it is a policy that remains morally right and in our common interest.’ “Instead of creating straw men to burn ceremoniously in an ill-conceived strategy to placate sceptics on the right of his party, Andrew Mitchell
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Cameron fails to fight for world’s poor as G8 drops $50bn aid pledge
First posted on Left Foot Forward. When Harriet Harman asked David Cameron last week to give due credit to Gordon Brown for his work on development, he replied: “I’d be delighted to, if he could be bothered to turn up to this House.” Apart from being disrespectful to a former prime minister and Chancellor respected
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Will Cameron apologise for his visit to apartheid South Africa?
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Prime Minister said in a statement that Mandela remains an example that gives people the hope to “struggle anew” for “justice and freedom for all”. David Cameron, however, was under pressure to apologise for a visit he made to apartheid
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Conservative Careerism in Rwanda
Just stumbled upon this Independent article about Cameron’s ‘development’ project in Rwanda. Compassionate Conservatism or a chance for self promotion? Here are some extracts: “…Handily, it can also benefit the political careers of the volunteers. Our group included Andrew Mitchell, the shadow International Development Secretary, Nick Hurd, shadow Minister for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering,
Labour Campaign for International Development 