The Labour Party’s plan for government builds on our values and our proud history as a movement. The last Labour government created the U.K. Department for International Development, and through it, provided the global leadership to agree and fund the Millennium Development Goals.
We are proud of our achievements. We canceled debt, trebled the aid budget, untied aid, brokered ambitious deals on trade and climate change, and lifted millions of people out of poverty. We also set the U.K. on track to be the first country in the G-7 to reach the target of spending 0.7 percent of gross national income on aid.
Under Prime Minister David Cameron, DfID has lost its way. It has become the charitable arm of government and its reputation has slipped from global innovator to aid administrator.