Douglas Alexander answers your questions on the UK’s role in the global campaign to end poverty… and on what you can do to make a difference.
Douglas Alexander MP was delivering Christian Aid leaflets thirty years before becoming Secretary of State for International Development (his current cabinet post). He worked as a lawyer before entering Parliament and has previously been Secretary of State for Transport; Secretary of State for Scotland; Minister of State for Europe; Minister for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs; and Minister for e-Commerce and Competitiveness.