Oxford MPP 26 + MBA 27 @UniofOxford. Pershing Square Scholar. Former Special Adviser in @ukhomeoffice, @FCDOGovUK & @DHSCgovuk. Long-suffering Spurs fan.
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Alice Hopkin retweeted
Good to be back in Parliament last week for the launch of @BritainLeads’s new report on Giorgia Meloni’s Africa Plan, authored by @AliceMHopkin with a foreword by Sir @JamesCleverly.
A really interesting discussion on how the UK can use trade, investment and development finance more strategically, and build stronger partnerships across Africa.
coalitionforglobalprosperity…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
Italy's Mattei Plan unites trade, investment and development finance for Africa under a single framework, driven by national interest rather than aid alone.
A new CGP report explores what lessons the UK could draw from this model, launched at a parliamentary roundtable with author @AliceMHopkin, alongside MPs @JamesCleverly, @JeromeMayhew, @RicHolden, and @JoePJRobertson.
Read the full report: coalitionforglobalprosperity…
I wrote for @ConHome about my @BritainLeads report explaining what we can learn from Giorgia Meloni’s Mattei Plan for Africa.
A development strategy actually supported by the public is worth far more to the world’s poorest than one admired by specialists but consented to by no one.
conservativehome.com/2026/09…
We can start by shifting the debate away from choosing 0.7%, 0.5%, 0.3% or 0.1% and build something that works for both Britain and African nations.
European countries should be creating the economic conditions in which young Africans can build prosperous lives at home rather than feel compelled to migrate.
Read the full report here: coalitionforglobalprosperity…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
"While the UK has spent years arguing about whether foreign aid should be 0.7%, 0.5%, 0.3% or 0.1% of national income, Italy's most successful modern leader has been asking a different question: what should Italian development policy actually be for?"
CGP Senior Fellow @AliceMHopkin on the lessons from Meloni's Mattei Plan, in @ConHome: conservativehome.com/2026/09…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
From @AliceMHopkin Giorgia Meloni is proving that Britain keeps having the wrong argument about foreign aid conservativehome.com/2026/09…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
British aid policy has lost the public and governments have responded by cutting it, not fixing it.
In CGP's latest report, Senior Fellow @AliceMHopkin makes the case for a British answer to Giorgia Meloni's Mattei Plan for Africa - centred on national interest, the Commonwealth, and tools we already have (BII, UKEF).
@JamesCleverly MP writes in the foreword: "Foreign policy, development, defence and border security are one intertwined challenge, not four."
Read the full report: coalitionforglobalprosperity…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN: FUTURE LEADERS PROGRAMME 2027
Following the success of our previous cohorts, CGP's Future Leaders Programme returns for 2027. This exclusive cross-party programme is aimed at prospective parliamentary candidates and future leaders with an interest in foreign affairs, offering the chance to deepen their understanding of the UK's role on the world stage.
Participants will hear directly from military and intelligence chiefs, ambassadors, national security advisors and political leaders.
Head over to apply and be part of our next cohort: coalitionforglobalprosperity…
Curious to see what it's really like? Hear directly from our alumni on why you should apply👇
Alice Hopkin retweeted
An unprecedented range of government policies over the past two years have left rural people feeling under attack.
If political leaders want to speak for all parts of the country, they have to hear the countryside too.
Now is the time for a rural reset: ruralreset.org/
Alice Hopkin retweeted
Tottenham ’Til I Die.
A film by Alfie Whiteman
Sound by Les Whiteman
Narrated by Himesh Patel
Alice Hopkin retweeted
I’m sure Labour will try to take credit for these figures but numbers are down because of the visa regime that I put in place as Home Secretary.
Also worth remembering that Labour opposed @Conservatives whenever we tried to tighten our borders.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0g0xnr…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
The rise in unemployment to 5% is bad, but that excludes sickness benefit.
The fuller figure - all out-of-work benefits - is now closer to 15%. frasernelson.com/data/econom…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
FYI, as the PM said at #PMQs today, UK inflation peaked at 11.1% in October 2022.
But as most people will also remember, this was during a global energy crisis - and inflation surged to similar levels in the rest of Europe.
This time, the UK is clearly an outlier... 🤔
Alice Hopkin retweeted
UK unemployment rose to 5 per cent in the three months to September, from 4.8 per cent in the previous quarter — highest level since the pandemic.
Number of payroll employees fell by 32,000 in October to 30.3 million. Over the year payrolls have contracted by 180,000.
So that’s what Chancellor Reeves means by ‘fixing the foundations’!!
Alice Hopkin retweeted
The #BBC’s problem was a failure to recognise its own bias. I raised issue this with senior BBC management on numerous occasions.
Credulous reporting of Hamas propaganda as fact, selective editing of President Trump, not pulling the Bob Villain feed, the rebuke of Martine Croxall, etc etc
They saw each “mistake” as being in isolation and couldn’t or wouldn’t see a wider pattern.
I hope that this episode will trigger a broader look at bias, groupthink, and political fashion within the BBC by the BBC.
I want the BBC to succeed, it’s a powerful British brand, but it needs a proper kick up the arse for that to happen. Perhaps this is it.
Alice Hopkin retweeted
I wonder whether Labour will try to take credit for this fall in immigration.
The visa changes that I brought in as Home Secretary have reduced net migration. Those who claimed it couldn’t be done are wrong.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-col…
Alice Hopkin retweeted
‘My autistic son was let go by Waitrose. I can fight — too many can’t’. Frances Boyd speaks for so many families - autistic people should be given more work opportunities if we are to help solve the problem of economic inactivity.
thetimes.com/article/56eddd5…
Increasingly frustrating for those of us who joined the Oxford Union simply to watch decent visiting speakers.
After the way these people behaved last week, I’m not sure why anyone would bother making the journey whilst this fiasco is ongoing.
They’ve already made all conservatives feel unwelcome, now they’re disrespectful to both guests and members who don’t have time to sit and wait for them to stop arguing.
Oxford Union latest (47 hours after close of poll).
There has been no counting in the vote of no confidence in George Abaraonye. Scrutiny of proxy votes is currently suspended. Following a meeting of the Standing Committee, attended by Abaraonye, he and his supporters succeeded in calling for a vote of no confidence in the current President Moosa Harraj. This will take place on Thursday. To reiterate, all this has taken place before even beginning to count the vote on Saturday. @Grok is wrong to propagate that Abaraonye has been ousted. He remains President-Elect.
