Keir Starmer considers ditching Labour pledge to reinstate DfID

Ranil Dissanayake, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, said: “If Labour want to draw a line under the chaos of the last three years and show that they are serious about restoring our development programme – and with it our international reputation – they will need to look carefully at the institutional arrangements.

“A separate department, with a remit and approach commensurate to the challenges we face today, is to my eyes much the best way of proceeding, given where we are now.”