Unless every opinion poll is wrong, Keir Starmer will be the Labour prime minister in July, on a promise to restore the United Kingdom’s reputation after 14 years of power for the Conservative Party and four tumultuous years for foreign and development policy.
But until this week, the general election was not expected until the autumn — leaving Labour scrambling to agree on key aspects of its plans in the next few days and weeks. So what do we know already?
Labour will announce in the next two or three weeks — before its preelection manifesto is launched — whether it will restore the aid department axed by the Conservatives in 2020, when the merged Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, or FCDO, was created.