All articles written by Andrew Mitchell MP on PoliticsHome.com

16 Feb Foreign affairs

The UK stands ready to help as we move from rescue to recovery in Turkey and Syria

The immense scale of the devastation caused by last week’s deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria is still difficult to comprehend.

11 Jul 2022 Foreign affairs

Andrew Mitchell MP: We must preserve the UN Security Council mandate for cross-border aid into Syria

Just a week ago, I called on the UK government to work with the UN Security Council (UNSC) to allow lifesaving aid into Syria.

04 Jul 2022 Foreign affairs

The UK must work with the UN Security Council to allow lifesaving aid into Syria

When it comes to the crisis in Syria, the international community must do more to work diplomatically to re-develop the country.

10 Mar 2022 Home affairs

The UK's immigration system is not fit to respond to the Ukrainian refugee crisis

“Whoever rescues a single soul is credited as though they had saved the whole world”. This maxim, from the Jewish Talmud, is often quoted in tribute to Britain’s help for refugees during the Second World War.

01 Feb 2022 Foreign affairs

We must urgently scale up British aid to Afghanistan – for many it’s already too late

As former International Development Secretary, I visited some of the most desperate places on earth and met people living in unimaginable hardship. They are experiences that I will always remember and have fundamentally shaped my view of the world.

01 Nov 2021 Economy

Britain started 2020 as a development superpower but will end 2021 having failed to deliver on the global stage

The Chancellor is a man of his word and has now given a clear commitment that Britain will return to 0.7 per cent GNI for aid spending by 2024. This commitment is welcome and is far clearer than what he proposed in July, when 26 of my Conservative colleagues joined me in voting against his motion in the House of Commons.

07 Jun 2021 Foreign affairs

Government must keep it’s word and reverse devastating foreign aid cuts

During a global pandemic, will we be thanked for pulling the rug from under the poorest countries of the world?

03 Mar 2021 Foreign affairs

Cutting aid to Yemen is the first deadly consequence of abandoning our 0.7% promise

Ahead of Yesterday’s conference on Yemen, the UN warned that 400,000 children in the country risked starving to death without an increase in humanitarian support.

27 Aug 2020 Health

We need to reform assisted dying laws to give terminally ill people the right to die on their own terms

Many MPs, like me, believe the current assisted dying laws lack transparency and are no longer fit for purpose.

16 Jun 2020 Coronavirus

Merging the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office is a retrograde step which we will come to regret

It is seldom a good sign when governments decide to tinker with the Whitehall architecture - especially in the middle of the worst crisis for a generation.

15 Jan 2020 Foreign affairs

The Civil Service will embrace the changes that Downing Street is seeking

Liam Fox is wrong to call for DfID to be merged with the Foreign Office, says former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell MP.

11 Apr 2019 Foreign affairs

Britain harbours a guilty secret which should worry all decent people who care about its role in the world

The souls of those who were murdered in the Rwandan Genocide cry out for justice. But from Britain justice has at least been delayed and at worst denied, says Andrew Mitchell MP.

The UK needs a hub airport as we take up 'a new and more open position in the world'

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01 Jun 2018 Transport

The UK needs a hub airport as we take up 'a new and more open position in the world'

Former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell expects a parliamentary vote on Heathrow expansion before the Summer recess and says 'the majority of colleagues across the House want to see Heathrow expand for the benefit of the whole country'.

10 May 2018 Foreign affairs

Commons Diary: Andrew Mitchell

From a bibliophile to the tactile, Andrew Mitchell encounters optimism and opportunities, whilst marvelling at a geriatric shell shocker, on a trip to southern Africa

15 Mar 2018 Foreign affairs

Britain has been infiltrated by Russian criminals, bandits and Mafiosi. We must respond with action

What happened in Salisbury was a calculated act of terror. We must now implement the full Magnitsky powers to ban visas for human rights violators and to make the sanctions public, writes Andrew Mitchell

13 Jul 2017 Foreign affairs

Rebuilding Rwanda

Since 2007, scores of Conservative members have visited Rwanda every August as part of Project Umubano. Proof, says its founder, Andrew Mitchell, that social action projects can go the distance