international development

Brown to take on unpaid development role

by Peter Wozniak Gordon Brown will dedicate himself to unpaid work on international development, he has confirmed. Mr Brown, who stepped down as prime minister after the general election but remains the MP for Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath, has announced his intention to join a series of aid, education and development initiatives. He will take up… Read more »

Clegg in Pakistan: Recovery will take ‘years and years’

by Peter Wozniak Nick Clegg has visited flood-hit Pakistan, lamenting the slow global response to the crisis and predicting a long road ahead for the country’s recovery. Describing the scale of the disaster on seeing the devastation in the south of the country, the deputy prime minister said: “I think the sheer scale of this,… Read more »