MPs have a chance to ensure Boris Johnson arrives at the summit as first among equals at this time of multiple crises
- Andrew Mitchell was international development secretary from 2010 to 2012
Ahead of this week’s G7 summit in Cornwall, illustrators of much loved children’s books have joined families across the UK in tracing their hands – raising them in unison to call for action from world leaders on the Covid pandemic, injustice, the climate crisis and nature loss. The Wave of Hope is supported by 75 civil society organisations in the Crack the Crises coalition.
On the high streets of my own constituency, in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, charity shops are also getting involved. This feels very different to Make Poverty History or the If campaign, which formed the backdrop to the last occasion on which Britain hosted the G8. This time, international development campaigners have joined the green movement and civil society to put their collective force behind the campaign.
