The surprise appointment of former United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron as its new foreign secretary has raised advocates’ hopes of a stronger focus in London on global poverty goals and the climate crisis.
Cameron has been brought in from the cold by Rishi Sunak, the current U.K. leader, in a reshuffle widely seen as a shift toward the center ground — summed up by the sacking of the divisive anti-immigrant Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday.
Aid organizations pointed out the former prime minister has been “a public champion of the 0.7% U.K. aid commitment, the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, and the need to tackle climate change,” both while in office and since his 2016 departure.