David Cameron called for a dedicated aid minister in the Cabinet as he said more could be done to support Ukraine with the humanitarian crisis.The former prime minister was asked on Channel 4 News whether he would rule out putting a no-fly zone in place over Ukraine if he was in office, and said: “I’m afraid I would, you know, in our hearts, every shred of our being wants to do everything we can to help the Ukrainians in the struggle.
“And we are helping, we’re helping with weapons, we’re helping with training, we’re helping with refugees. There’s more we can do on humanitarian aid, but I think we have to be very clear with our friends and allies and people we care deeply about, we must be clear about what we can do. But I’m afraid we also have to be clear about what we can’t do.
“That said, there are more things that we can do. Well, I think the process started under my premiership of sending more troops to frontline states in Nato, to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Let’s turn some of those into permanent bases.
“Let’s do more on humanitarian aid. We achieved 0.7% of GDP in our aid payments. I’m sad we’ve got away from that. I hope we can get back there.
“Let’s with the EU lead the donor conference, lead the aid effort. Let’s have a dedicated aid minister in the Cabinet doing development. The Foreign Office ministers do a great job, but it’d be good to have someone who’s 100% dedicated to humanitarian aid and development.”