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Andrew Mitchell

Headshot of Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell is the Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield. He was a government whip from 1992 to 1995 and chief whip in 2012

November 2024

  • View of island surrounded by little boats and blue sea

    double quotation markOpen registers are only way to stop dirty money that underpins crime

    Margaret Hodge and Andrew Mitchell
    We know too well that overseas territories and crown dependencies play a pivotal role in helping crooks and tax dodgers

September 2024

  • Sudanese children at the Zamzam internal displacement camp.

    double quotation markWith more than a million lives at risk in Sudan, the UN must make a decisive intervention. If not now, when?

    Andrew Mitchell
    This is a critical time for global leadership. There must be an urgent plan and a firm resolve, and UK ministers must demand action, says shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

September 2022

  • Liz Truss speaks at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, Monday Sept. 5, 2022. Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

    double quotation markMy advice for Liz Truss: don’t treat backbenchers like me as a nuisance

    Andrew Mitchell
    Keir Starmer may not be Tony Blair, but I see signs of great danger if the Conservative party doesn’t get a grip on events, says MP Andrew Mitchell

June 2021

  • A G7 sign on the coastal path near the Carbis Bay resort in Cornwall.

    double quotation markIf Britain wants to set an example to the G7, it must restore its aid pledge

    Andrew Mitchell
    MPs have a chance to ensure Boris Johnson arrives at the summit as first among equals, says former development secretary Andrew Mitchell

June 2018

  • Damage caused by an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on December 5, 2017.

    double quotation markBritain is complicit in Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen

    Andrew Mitchell
    The government rightly condemned Assad’s attack on Aleppo. Why is it silent on the Saudi assault on Hodeidah, asks Andrew Mitchell, Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield

April 2017

  • World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva

    double quotation markThe WHO failed on Ebola. With a future pandemic inevitable it needs reform

    Andrew Mitchell
    The World Health Organization will soon have a new head. Ethiopia’s former health minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the outstanding candidate

May 2016

  • Andrew Mitchell, the former international development secretary, talking to a Pakistani girl displaced by floods in 2010

    The missing development trillions
    double quotation markThe private sector must be seen as an engine of development, not its enemy

    Andrew Mitchell
    In a world where there are such obscene discrepancies in opportunity and wealth, everyone must to work together for change

February 2016

  • Tory MP William Cash, pictured in 1993 with Maastricht Referendum Campaign

    double quotation markA plea to my fellow Tories: don’t turn the EU vote into another circular firing squad

    Andrew Mitchell
    The Conservative party has a once in a lifetime opportunity to bury the Europe hatchet: by avoiding the fratricidal fury that turned my hair white in the 90s

October 2015

  • Syrian people sleep inside a greenhouse at a makeshift camp for asylum seeker, southern Hungary

    double quotation markBritish forces could help achieve an ethical solution in Syria

    Andrew Mitchell and Jo Cox
  • Aid distribution near Bab al-Mandab Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

    double quotation markBritain seems to have outsourced foreign policy to Saudi Arabia

    Andrew Mitchell

January 2012

  • Fermented cocoa beans Ghana

    double quotation markGhana's boom proves aid can really work

    Andrew Mitchell
    Andrew Mitchell: Ghana still faces huge challenges and British support will help it meet them, but its growth and progress deserve our praise

May 2011

  • MDG : Rajiv Shah visist Shouthern Sudan

    Poverty matters blog
    Sudan at a crossroads

    Erik Solheim, Andrew Mitchell and Rajiv Shah: With Sudan dividing into two countries, and with many issues still unresolved, it is in the interest of all Sudanese that there be mutual trust and respect for each country's security and stability

April 2011

  • kenya child malaria net

    Poverty matters blog
    The UK will do all it can to make malaria a thing of the past

    Andrew Mitchell: To mark World Malaria Day on Monday, Britain pledges it will help to halve malaria deaths in 10 of the worst affected countries in Africa and Asia over the next four years

March 2011

  • MDG : International Women's Day : Syrian woman Khadija walks with her children, Lebanon

    Poverty matters blog
    International Women's Day: UK's aid aims to help poorer women

    Andrew Mitchell: Our well-spent and targeted international aid can do a lot to improve the lives of girls and women marginalised by poverty

January 2011

  • MDG : Polio awareness campaign poster Inia

    Poverty matters blog
    Private sector, public benefit: My vision for a new development paradigm

    Andrew Mitchell: An extra 45 million children will be vaccinated against polio by 2013. And in coming years, private sector partnerships will deliver equally measurable development progress

November 2010

  • Sacks of wheat in an aid centre

    Poverty matters blog
    It's wrong to assume results-based aid will lead to a culture of quick wins

    Andrew Mitchell: The UK government is not alone in demanding to know in detail what it's getting for its aid money. Both rich and poor countries want closer analysis of how many is being spent

October 2010

  • Food crisis

    Poverty matters blog
    A more intelligent approach is needed in the fight against global malnutrition

    Andrew Mitchell: We need to understand the malnourishment problem better while ensuring food is not only available but, crucially, affordable

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