The very poor are now concentrated in violent countries. Aid policy must evolve

DAVID CAMERON lost his job as prime minister because he could not reconcile Britons to Europe. He might have sulked on the backbenches. Instead, Mr Cameron has a new (unpaid) job as the chairman of a commission on fragile states. Having failed to persuade Britons to stick with countries where they like to holiday, whose wine they happily imbibe and where many own homes, he will now try to convince them to send more money to some of the world’s poorest, most corrupt and most violent places.