The last UK prime minister to miss the event was David Cameron in 2013
The SDG summit is held once every four years and marks the halfway point to the 2030 deadline for achieving the global plan to improve the planet and the quality of human life.
Stephanie Draper, chief executive of Bond – the UK network for international development organisations, said Britain appeared to have “stepped back from leadership on globally agreed goals”. Labour shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said earlier this month that Mr Sunak’s absence at the UN General Assembly “would mark a low ebb of the Conservatives’ isolationist foreign policy”.
A No10 spokesperson said: “The UK delegation at the UN General Assembly High Level Week will be led by the Deputy Prime Minister, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary and others.
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