With or without Trump, we must back UN's education drive | Larry Elliott

Rich countries have the chance to show multilateralism is not dead by backing $10bn initiativeAll things considered, the United Nations could have chosen a better week to launch an initiative designed to raise $10bn to invest in global education. That this is not exactly a golden age for multilateralism was underlined last week when Donald Trump decided that the US was going to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal despite strong lobbying from Germany, France and the UK. Trump has his own way of doi