The meeting was the fifth quarterly meeting between the Minister and the Chief Ministers of the Crown Dependencies as part of an extensive engagement programme on the UK’s exit from the EU. The main themes from the latest inter-ministerial meeting are… read more
During February, there was one new detention of foreign flagged vessels in a UK port, six vessels remained under detention from previous months. A total of four vessels remain under detention at the end of February. In response to one of the recommen… read more
Penny Mordaunt at the Safeguarding Summit. Picture: Jo Harrison/DFID At a landmark Safeguarding Summit today (Monday 5 March 2018), co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Charity Commission, Penny Mordaunt challenged… read more
Foreign Office Minister of State Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, visited Turkey and Iraq between 1 and 4 March 2018 to mark the recent launch of the UK’s National Ac… read more
Everyone remembers their childhood home. Mine was the flat above the family shop. With my parents – who had come to Britain from Pakistan with almost nothing – and my 4 brothers. Nothing fancy, but an important rung on the ladder for our family. I won… read more