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Andrew Mitchell

October 2024

  • UK-based Chagos Islanders protest outside of the Houses of Parliament on 7 October.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Lammy defends Chagos Islands deal as Tories claim it puts UK security at risk – as it happened

    Shadow foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, says David Cameron and James Cleverly would not have agreed such a deal

July 2024

  • Yvette Cooper walks up Downing Street holding her ministerial papers

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Yvette Cooper to chair meeting of taskforce considering ‘alarming rise’ in candidate intimidation – as it happened

    Home secretary to host meeting of government’s Defending Democracy taskforce after reported rise in harassment during election campaign

May 2024

  • Rose Wanyua holding a photo of Agnes Wanyua

    Kenya begins public hearings into alleged abuses by UK troops

  • Margaret Hodge and Labour candidate Joe Powell on the steps of a grand, black-doored property's steps holding up placards saying 'Kensington Against Dirty Money'

    ‘Sorry, no one is in’: few are at home for Margaret Hodge’s ‘kleptocracy walking tour’

  • Andrew Mitchell

    Summary of advice that UK arms sales to Israel not unlawful to be released

  • Smoke rises over the city.

    Israeli offensive on Rafah would break international law, UK minister says

April 2024

  • Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill<br>The vote is read out in the House of Commons, London as MPs have voted 306 to 229, majority 77, to reject Lords Amendment 3G to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, aimed at ensuring Rwanda could not be treated as safe unless it was deemed so by an independent monitoring body. Picture date: Monday April 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story Politics Rwanda. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened

  • Two men in suits walk along a pavement next to high black railings, one of them holding a red folder

    Legal assessment of Israel’s actions in Gaza risks being subsumed in Tory row

March 2024

  • A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan.

    Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding

  • Israeli soldiers in a location given as Nasser hospital in Gaza a few days after a raid took place.

    UK pressing for ‘full explanation’ of alleged abuses after Gaza hospital raid

  • Andrew Mitchell calls for a full investigation into reports that medical staff at Gaza's Nasser hospital faced humiliating and violent treatment by Israeli forces

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    UK pressing for full explanation on Israeli raid of Gaza's Nasser hospital, says minister – video

  • Mideast Gaza Rafah Israel Hamas Conflict Food Relief - 31 Dec 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (14281817a) Children try to get food relief in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on Dec. 31, 2023. The United Nations (UN) estimates that approximately 1.9 million people in Gaza, or approximately 85 percent of the total population of the strip, have been displaced since the conflict broke out, while some of them were displaced several times to escape Israeli attacks and search for safe refuge. "Almost half of the population are starving and spending full days without eating," the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said in a press statement, warning that more people could die from famine if the conflict continues. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua) TO GO WITH Feature: Palestinians in Gaza hope to return to normal life in new year Mideast Gaza Rafah Israel Hamas Conflict Food Relief - 31 Dec 2023

    Palestinian aid agency funding will stay frozen until reports received, says UK

February 2024

  • A woman driving donkeys to transport water in drought-affected areas in Ethiopia’s Somali region.

    We must act on Ethiopia food crisis, says UK minister

    Andrew Mitchell warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ triggered by El Niño-driven drought and conflict

December 2023

  • Andrew Mitchell speaking into a microphone at Cop28

    UK government unlikely to support climate levy on airline tickets, says minister

  • Foreign secretary David Cameron, prime minister Rishi Sunak and home secretary James Cleverly arrive to attend a ceremonial welcome for the South Korean president in central London on 21 November.

    Row brews between Home Office and Foreign Office on eve of UN refugee summit

November 2023

  • An armyworm devours a farmer's maize in Kenya

    ‘Stop this obscenity’: could key UK summit turn tide on world hunger?

  • The Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell

    UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court

October 2023

  • Andrew Mitchell, speaking and gesticulating in conversation during the Conservative party’s annual conference, with a paper coffee cup at his side

    Definitions changing in UK’s bid to meet climate finance target

    Andrew Mitchell, the development minister, said ‘clarifications’ would more accurately reflect spending
  • Andrew Mitchell at the meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

    UK needs to rebuild global development reputation, admits Andrew Mitchell

    Development minister’s comments at World Bank summit in Marrakech acknowledge effect of aid budget cuts
  • Andrew Mitchell talking in a restaurant

    Tory MPs should ‘get behind’ Sunak, says Andrew Mitchell

    International development minister warns colleagues jostling for position not to be ‘self-indulgent’
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