The media (broadcast as well as print) immediate response to Keir Starmer's move of Lisa Nandy to the shadow portfolio of international development was that it was a demotion. That is a sad reflection on the little-England mentality which seems to have grown under the Tories.
For too long, the UK's international development arm has operated in the shadows, markedly less interested in the positive development of the third world. I see Starmer's appointment as a positive step, bringing the sharpness of the Wigan MP to bear on the attitude and practices of an operation which needs investigation. The wikipedia article suggests that it has still not changed direction sufficiently since its exposure by Private Eye in the previous decade.
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