Which of the U.K.’s political parties is the most bullish on the future of U.K. aid? Which one is the keenest to promise that it will return to spending 0.7% of gross national income on official development assistance — scrapped by the ruling Conservatives in the guise of a cost-saving measure to tackle the costs of COVID-19 — and to reinstate an independent department to oversee the process?
Broadly, in ascending order, those which are furthest from office, if an event attended by my colleague David Ainsworth is anything to go by.
The U.K. will go to the polls to choose a new government at some point in the next 10 months. We don’t know exactly when. So Bond, the network of U.K. NGOs, last week booked a room in the Houses of Parliament to launch its manifesto for the coming elections, containing a broadly to-be-expected list of things its members would like to see from whoever assumes power later this year.