Andrew Mitchell quotes:

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results."

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.