“Your job is to decide which tens of thousands of people will die because of my shameful aid cuts” The reality of the PM’s brief for the new international development minister Who fancies it ?

Wow!! UK to slash aid spending to 0.3% of GNI from 2027 Announced by a Labour government - the party that calls itself the party of international development

David Lammy also refuses to guarantee that the aid budget will not be cut....

"I believe we should move from freezing assets to seizing assets" David Lammy gives UK backing to using Russia's billions in EU banks to boost Ukraine's war effort - following the US abandoning Kyiv

Development minister Anneliese Dodds declines to answer a question about whether the UK is considering cutting its aid budget below 0.5% of GNI - to fund higher defence spending.....

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls opponents of new oil & gas fields (which experts agree is vital to tackle the climate emergency)......."eco-nutters" Yes really

UK development minister Anneliese Dodds declines to criticise Trump's total shutdown of US aid..... “He was elected by the US population with millions of votes - it’s ultimately a US policy decision” she tells MPs

Another eg of Labour sticking to the previous government's approach - shifting funding from work to prevent or reduce conflict to 'national security' concerns Which means a 33% cut next year - despite ever more conflict across the globe..... www.devex.com/news/scoop-n...

The lies spread by far right politicians and extremists to provoke August's racist riots worked That's the depressing conclusion

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has set up a 'Soft Power Council' - calling soft power "fundamental to the UK’s impact and reputation around the world" Meanwhile.... www.devex.com/news/british...

Wealthy nations send development aid to poorer ones right? Not quite - $1 in every $7 of rich countries' 'international aid' is spent within their own borders. The OECD urged them to think again. This is what happened next..... www.devex.com/news/oecd-na...

This is a big moment - the Conservative leader confessing her party had no plan for Brexit.....hence the disaster that followed Of course, 9 years later - still no-one has a plan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The captain of the Titanic has slammed rowers in two paddle boats that bumped in Hyde Park lake” 🙄

Think the staffing chaos triggered by the axing of the UK's international aid department is over? Think again..... www.devex.com/news/5-years...