This is pretty dire and short sighted. And given that a lot of the foreign aid funds had been diverted to UK universities to fund research, it might mean another catastrophic blow to university funding. But if it's front line work in desperately needy places, we can expect more refugees, right?

Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

Chart from Tony Blair Institute of UK Aid spend over time - the successive steps down to 0.5% and now 0.3% of GDP unwind virtually all New Labour's increase Defence has pressing claims in a real security crisis. But when US is slashing aid as well, a development crisis also looms

I'm sure this focus-grouped very well. Kicking poor people often does. More than a decade of Blair's & Brown's work on development gone just like that. Mind you, they'd already hollowed out the definition of aid so much that these numbers don't mean much anyway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

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