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David Taylor

Website David is Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development; he formerly worked as a campaigner for Oxfam and Wada Na Todo (the national campaign against poverty in India), and as a student activist with People & Planet on Fairtrade.

Post-Colonial arrogance: UK refuses to aid India in equitable growth

David Taylor
12 November, 2012

The government’s decision to stop aid to India is the latest instalment in a history of ignoring India.

Reshuffle: DFID: Mitchell’s record, and the challenges facing Greening

David Taylor
4 September, 2012

As Justine Greening is announced as the new international development secretary, it’s worth pausing to reflect on the record of her predecessor Andrew Mitchell.

There must be cross-party commitment to passing the 0.7% international aid bill

David Taylor
13 July, 2012

Today is an opportunity to help deliver (possibly the only) promise that was in all three Parties’ manifestos

The left must build a coalition of the willing at the G20 in order to boost global recovery

David Taylor
21 June, 2012

Obama, Hollande, Dilma, Gillard and Hernandez would be a formidable force for progress if they worked together to push for a global growth plan.

Just as we dismantle our NHS, India is trying to build theirs

David Taylor
23 February, 2012

David Taylor argues that the lack of help for India’s growing health service is a shame, but sadly typical of the conservative attitude to aid

On its tenth anniversary, the Global Fund is in crisis

David Taylor
31 January, 2012

David Taylor calls on the government to save the Global Fund, which funds the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide

Conservatives to meet aid target by counting ‘made up’ debt relief as aid

David Taylor
9 January, 2012

David Taylor, chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development, reveals the Tories’ plan to count debt relief as real aid, arguing it’s no help at all.

Tories are balancing the books on the backs of the world’s poorest

David Taylor
2 December, 2011

David Taylor writes about the cut to international development that was included in the autumn statement

£200m of aid budget to be spent on St Helena airport – after lobbying from Lord Ashcroft

David Taylor
4 November, 2011

The government has approved £200 million of the aid budget to be spent building an airport for St Helena – after lobbying from £127m tax dodger Lord Ashcroft.

Cameron is abdicating his responsibility on international development

David Taylor
14 October, 2011

Labour Campaign for International Development chair David Taylor writes about how Cameron and Clegg are failing to take the lead on fighting international poverty.

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