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A chance for Labour to honour its pledge on international development | Letters

Romilly Greenhill says the government must champion debt relief and global economic reforms that would benefit lower-income countries. Plus a letter from Diana FrancisHeather Stewart is right (The spirit of the G8 ‘make poverty history’ summit of 2005 seems long gone, 6 July). Twenty years later, we are in a completely different world, facing overlapping crises and a retreat from global responsibility.In just the first half of 2025 alone, USAID has been dismantled, and the UK, France, Germany and Canada have all scaled back their development budgets. Many lower-income countries are still reeling from crises that they did not cause, spending more on debt repayments than on healthcare or education. Continue reading...

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