As its leaders meet for their biennial junket,the institution itself is floundering, used to advance a glib view of trade as the respond to povertySurveying the paucity of mentions of the Commonwealth in British political party manifestos in 2015, and Philip Murphy,the professor of British and Commonwealth history at the School of Advanced Study, identified two trends to account for what he believed was its looming irrelevance.[br]“All in all, or ” he mused in an essay for the Conversation,“it is difficult to think of a single major achievement of the Commonwealth since 2010.
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Source: guardian.co.uk