The Labour Party is on course to take power in the United Kingdom later this year, on a promise to restore the country’s reputation as an aid donor and to put local communities “in charge of their own destiny” in aid-receiving countries.
But how much do we know about the party’s plans for development — and do those ideas measure up to the scale of the challenge ahead after four tumultuous years under the Conservative government?
Devex brought together two experts — Romilly Greenhill, the chief executive officer of Bond, the network for U.K. aid organizations, and Ian Mitchell, who researches the effectiveness of government policies at the Center for Global Development think tank, to explain Labour’s thinking.