77 Quotes by Hilary Benn

I don't believe that for a second. This is for real.

I am concerned by recent developments in Uganda and I have decided to cut 15 million pounds from our planned budget support this year and postpone a decision on whether to provide a further five million pounds until after the elections.

If we are going to avoid a further wave of deaths we have to get shelter and protection to people who need it,

It is a very, very important deal. But there are other countries represented on the World Bank board in particular and they need to support it too.

Our immediate contribution of 3 million pounds will help deliver food to those most in need. But on its own, this emergency response will not help people to escape from poverty and hunger.

It is doing its work and those who are committing these crimes will in the end be brought to account.

We have a long way yet to go and we need to keep up the pressure if we are going to vanquish these terrible diseases.

We have very little time to help left,

Those are differences that spring from the individual decisions of donors, no doubt rational in their own right, but they result in an irrational and an unfair outcome.