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Launch of NEF’s essay collection ’ ​”rethinking the uk’s role in a fractured world’


To celebrate the launch of NEF’s cross-party essay collection ​‘Rethinking the UK’s Role in a Fractured World’, we were delighted to host the Minister of State for Development, Kirsty McNeill MP, at SOAS for her inaugural speech since being appointed to the office. 

For more information about the essays please follow the link below.

Rethinking the UK’s role in a fractured world

In her speech, she drew upon the necessity of the UK to remain a leader in development and international aid amid ever more perilous geopolitics while emphasising that development cannot be separated from climate action. This government’s support for devolution of power sits at the heart of their international aid policy through empowerment, not lecturing, with a recognition that the age of development being done by the Global North onto the Global South is over, and a new era of mutual interest must frame our approach going forward.

For more information about Kirsty’s speech a transcript can be found below.

Link to the Minister’s speech

Images from the launch of NEF's essay collection

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