The UK should use its current G7 presidency to devise a multilateral system, such as a fund, into which developed countries can channel their additional SDRs. That fund could then provide quick grants to countries in need.

If the Written Statement tells us anything, it’s that the Foreign Secretary’s seven strategic priorities - and the Government’s own manifesto promises - are not exempt from the aid cuts.

While the ambitious scope and breadth of the Integrated Review can be commended, the lack of detail in many areas raises questions over both the feasibility and desirability of the approach it outlines.

For the last five decades, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories - namely the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip - has resulted in systematic human rights violations against Palestinian citizens.

The UK is closer than it has been in years to a cross-party consensus on Russia. Labour and the Conservatives now share a justified perception of Russia as a clear threat to the UK as well as its allies and partners in Europe. Their mutual recognition of Russia’s malign behaviour, however, obscures a mutual failure to elaborate a detailed vision of what Britain’s relations with Russia should look like.

The protests in India are in response to three new laws which affect farmers, passed in September 2020. Taken together, the laws loosen rules around sale, pricing and storage of farm produce – rules which have protected India's farmers from being undercut by the free market for decades.

Now that the UK has officially left the EU, the Conservative Government may decide to shift ODA spending along regional or cultural lines, for example by increasing aid to countries within the Commonwealth to bolster British influence.

The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy is an ongoing, cross-governmental review launched in 2019. The review is expected to be published in March 2021, though this is later than originally planned and there has been some speculation that this could be delayed even further.

On the morning of Monday 1 February, Myanmar’s military seized power from the Government in a coup, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the country’s ruling party.

The US–UK relationship is often defined in terms of military and intelligence collaboration. This view however misses a number of other key elements that also layer and shape this relationship.