One of the Commonwealth's selling points is that it gives all its members an equally loud voice at its biennial head-of-government meetings
women at the top of the Commonwealth are determined to keep it buzzing. One is its titular head, Queen Elizabeth II, who adores the post-imperial cosiness of the club’s 53 members meeting in a grand conclave every two years—and who in turn is revered by many of the Commonwealth’s leaders and people.
One big snag is that the Commonwealth has been in dire need of cash. Seven years ago its budget, two-thirds of which was spent on a technical co-operation fund and a youth forum, was around £60m . When Lady Scotland arrived in 2016 it had shrunk to £42m; the cost of running its secretariat has been hard to meet. Canada, infuriated by the Commonwealth’s failure to speak up for human rights in Sri Lanka in 2013, cut much of its funding. Australia is less keen than it was.
Whatever its lack in oomph as a global heavyweight, the Commonwealth, which encompasses a third of the world’s people, a quarter of thes membership, a fifth of the world’s land mass and a third of its waters under national jurisdiction, is a valuable network. Most of its members speak the same language and follow similar legal systems. This helps members to trade at a discount, even without free-trade agreements.
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