Hugh Bayley was a U.K. minister and member of Parliament for 23 years. As president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, he joined Republican and Democrat members of Congress to lobby more than 100 congressional colleagues to rescind motions calling for the U.S. to disengage from Europe. After leaving Parliament, he was a commissioner of the U.K.’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact from 2019 to 2024.
The U.K. has “been there-done that” in terms of closing its aid department — and U.S. legislators can draw on the learnings from the U.K. to avoid making some of the same mistakes.
