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Senior Tories Meet German Counterparts To Discuss Rebuilding and Fighting Reform

15 Apr Foreign affairs

A group of senior Conservative MPs has met with German sister parties to discuss how to recover from their 2024 general election defeat in one term and take the fight to Reform UK.

14 Apr Defence

Ukrainian MP Urges UK To Maintain "Balance" Between Defence And Aid Spending

11 Apr Foreign affairs

The Rundown Podcast: Can Starmer Navigate Trump's Tariff Turmoil?

11 Apr Foreign affairs

Senior Labour MP Urges Government To Take Advantage of Trump's Tariff Chaos: “Don’t Let A Crisis Go To Waste”

10 Apr Economy

How Trump's Tariffs Could Affect Personal Finances In The UK

08 Apr Defence

Tories Drawing Up Plans For Israeli-Style 'Iron Dome' In The UK

07 Apr Foreign affairs

Labour MP Mood Hardens On Israel

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14 Apr Foreign affairs

The UK must sign a bilateral security agreement with Kosovo

11 Apr Defence

Britain can lead a new era of defence finance

11 Apr Defence

The US should remember the UK has unique intelligence capabilities

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Reform Puts "Mr Farage" Front And Centre Of Runcorn By-Election Campaign

12 Apr Political parties

The US should remember the UK has unique intelligence capabilities

11 Apr Defence

Alastair Campbell Tells Labour To Set Up MP Group To Attack Reform

15 Apr Political parties

How Trump's Tariffs Could Affect Personal Finances In The UK

10 Apr Economy

Inside The Controversial Decision To Rid The UK Of Its Plutonium Stores

11 Apr Economy

Britain can lead a new era of defence finance

11 Apr Defence

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12 Feb Foreign affairs

Artful Dealing: How to deal with Donald Trump from No 10

Theresa May's former press chief reflects on what we've learned about how to deal with Donald Trump

27 Jan Foreign affairs

AG Lord Hermer on international law: 'Bring it on, if that’s the fight people want to have'

Sienna Rodgers talks to Lord Hermer about his friendship with the Prime Minister and focus on the rule of law since taking up the post of Attorney General

18 Dec 2024 Foreign affairs

Freedom's free riders – the European countries that should spend more on defence

Now US president-elect Donald Trump is making Europe pay for its own defence, Tim Leunig says countries like Switzerland and Ireland need to pick a side – and if they won’t join Nato, they should be made to help pay for it

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We are winning the argument on aid spending, George Osborne says

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09 Oct 2015 Education

We are winning the argument on aid spending, George Osborne says

The Syrian refugee crisis has bolstered public opinion on the importance of the 0.7% GDP target for international aid spending, George Osborne has said.

Senior Labour MPs support call to accept more child refugees

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30 Sep 2015 Education

Senior Labour MPs support call to accept more child refugees

Tristram Hunt MP and Dan Jarvis MP called for support of Save the Children’s campaigns to help refugee children and child literacy in the UK.

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25 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Six ways the Global Goals could change the world

Over the last three years, hundreds of thousands of you have joined our campaign for a Global Goal on taps and toilets and today, it became a reality. Our Campaigns Officer Rebecca Owen explains what that could mean for all our futures.

17 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Time for Government to 'end its military sales to despotic regimes'

Ann Clwyd MP writes ahead of her Westminster Hall debate today: 'Implications for human rights of promoting arms sales'.

16 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

National parliaments must ensure Sustainable Development Goals are met

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Chidgey writes ahead of his debate this week on the upcoming UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit.

Lord Dubs: UK response to refugee children 'could shame us for a generation'

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14 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Lord Dubs: UK response to refugee children 'could shame us for a generation'

As the UK continues to debate its response to the refugee crisis, Lord Dubs calls for the UK to 'not lose sight of one simple fact: all children have a right to be safe.'

Save the Children plans PMQs demonstration to highlight plight of refugees

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09 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Save the Children plans PMQs demonstration to highlight plight of refugees

Ahead of Prime Minister’s Questions today, leading charities will come together outside Parliament to draw attention to the level of British support for refugees.

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08 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Mott MacDonald appointed on waste management system improvement project, Brazil

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide technical and strategic advice on a public-private partnership (PPP) project to improve the waste management system in Curitiba, Brazil.

UK urged to do more to help Syrian children who have lost parents

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08 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

UK urged to do more to help Syrian children who have lost parents

Unicef UK urges UK towiden existing family reunion rules forunaccompanied children who have reached Europe as they 'are at the greatest risk of all the refugeesand migrants'.

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03 Sep 2015 Foreign affairs

Kos migrants – Here are the stories they want to tell you

Thousands of refugees and migrants have risked their lives this year, in a desperate bid to find safety in Europe. Some come by boat and wash up on Greek islands like Kos. But why are they here? Where have they come from and where are they heading?

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26 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Construction underway on Indigo hotel, China

Construction is underway on a new Indigo hotel in Yangzhou, China. Mott MacDonald is acting as mechanical, electrical and plumbing consultant on the project on behalf of Yangzhou Wansheng Industry Co., Ltd.

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20 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Port of Calais PPP achieves financial close, France

The 863 million Port of Calais extension public-private partnership (PPP) project has successfully reached financial close.

12 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

UK must speak up against sharp rise of executions in Iran

Co-chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom Lord Carlile of Berriew calls on the Government to condemn the human rights situation in Iran with nearly 700 executions since January 2015.

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12 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

‘The Swarm’ from Calais: a horror movie not showing near you

Kent roads in gridlock. Families missing their big summer holiday. Therewaseven talk of sending in the army to defend our borders from invading migrants. So how did we get here and whats going on?

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03 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Save the Children welcomes draft global goals as 'seismic shift' for combatting poverty

Save the Children has today strongly welcomed the agreement by member states of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Road Haulage Association calls for French military to secure Calais

The Road Haulage Association welcomes proposals to improve Operation Stack, which were set out at a resilience meeting in Kent today. But the plans will not cope adequately when the demands on Stack reach their peak, as has been repeatedly seen in the past month, the RHA warned.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Using digital systems to improve food security. Alan Whitelaw

If digital infrastructure is about delivering better outcomes, then nowhere is this more important than in support of agriculture and the food industry.

22 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Guide to the Ministry of Defence published

The House Magazine in association with Airbus Helicopters, BAE Systems, CAE, Northrop Grumman & SAAB has published a Guide to the Ministry of Defence.

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

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22 Jul 2015 Health

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

WaterAid recreates Victorian London in front of Parliament, urging MPs to increase investment in water and sanitation - 'the foundation to climbing out of poverty'.

Legal Aid reform is keeping families apart, new report warns

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20 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Legal Aid reform is keeping families apart, new report warns

Parliamentarians last week came together to discuss a new report by the British Red Cross which highlights the difficulties being faced be refugees we have been separated from their families

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

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20 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

With campaigns like action/2015 gaining support from the likes of One Direction and Hillary Clinton, Save the Children’s Brendan Cox says the message ‘to world leaders is clear’: you have the power to end extreme poverty and we are all behind you.

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

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16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

Lord Steel, Baroness Armstrong, Pauline Latham MP and Gavin Shuker MP describe the challenges being faced in Kenya to secure a representative parliament

Woodland Trust’s Centenary Woods project captures parliament’s imagination

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16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Woodland Trust’s Centenary Woods project captures parliament’s imagination

MPs, Peers and funders gathered this week in support of the Woodland Trust’s latest campaign.

16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

We must improve our application of the Responsibility to Protect

Labour peer, Lord McConnell examines the UK's application of the Responsibility to Protect,noting that while interventions have saved lives, those interventions have seen mixed outcomes in the years that follow.

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