Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told

Andy Burnham during a visit to a bus station in Bath on Wednesday to promote his £2 fare cap. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA

The world’s most vulnerable people will be put at risk by Andy Burnham’s decision to use the aid budget to pay for cheaper bus fares in England, charities have said.

The prime minister announced on Wednesday that he would reduce the fare cap from £3 a journey to £2 next year, funded mainly by changing international climate donations into repayable loans.