Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer

Seven former ministers wrote to Keir Starmer about Britain’s contribution to the fund. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock

A group of seven Labour MPs who served as ministers under Keir Starmer have written to the prime minister warning that an expected cut to UK funding for aid to combat preventable diseases would be both a “moral failure” and a strategic disaster.

With ministers and officials expected to decide the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria within days, the letter renews pressure on Starmer to pull back from an expected 20% cut.