Richard Darlington
@RDarlo
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Campaign Director @AidAlliance_ + Head of Strategic Communications @WMScomms. Pro-feminist, post-structuralist, multilateralist & @WonkComms original
Joined January 2012
RT @CHazelgroveMP: Yesterday, our Foreign Affairs Committee heard evidence from Sir Philip Barton, @FCDOGovUK Permanent Under-Secretary. I…
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I hate to break it to Robert Jenrick but you couldn’t get anywhere near to 3% of GDP for UK defence spending by cutting what remains of UK foreign aid. It’s like saying you plan to buy a new house by selling your bicycle
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@patrickwintour Literally no one is is advocating for an “immediate return”. If you look at the data, it shows the public pretty split (perhaps even confused). The methodology on this snap shot polling isn’t very enlightening because focus groups show the public don’t understand what 0.7% is
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I’ve spoken to my MP today about climate change. It’s fair to say she knows A LOT about local biodiversity but I’m reassured that she also understands that we can’t save the planet with U.K. action alone, so finance for developing countries is vital #CommonGrounds #MeetYourMP
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RT @adrianlovett: Chancellor @RachelReevesMP on cutting aid. "It will diminish Britain. It will reduce our power and influence for good…
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RT @AidAlliance_: The UK’s bilateral aid has been cut by 37% in education, by 39% in health, by 58% in water and sanitation and by 42% in h…
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RT @TheGlobalGoals: Prices are rising - an 800g loaf is up 30p in the UK! But is there a solution to the Cost of Living Crisis? YES! Intern…
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RT @Richard__Watts: Another year & yet another budget squeeze for @FCDOGovUK ... Despite promises of an uplift in aid spending, the opposi…
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RT @aidtransparency: Aid more transparent than ever before. 2024 Aid Transparency Index shows how #aiddata is more accessible and useful –…
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Can’t wait to read this
I’m writing this new biography of Gordon Brown, to be published by @BloomsburyBooks. It will have many fresh revelations on the battles fought by a conviction politician whose life and times in office hold numerous lessons for the new PM. Some more below:
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RT @DavidTaylor85: Thinking of Glenys today on what would have been her 80th birthday. I am so grateful for the support that she and Neil…
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RT @Hargraver: @AgnesChambre PM: "Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started. It was never a deterrant."
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RT @hoffman_noa: EXC: A Tory rising star candidate has sparked fury over transforming from new-build backer to "NIMBY" - in time for the el…
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