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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Craig Paton

Foreign aid budget cut will cost lives, warns Labour former first minister

Former Labour first minister Jack McConnell was speaking on Thursday (PA) -

The cut to the foreign aid budget announced this week will “cost lives and create chaos”, the last Labour first minister in Scotland has claimed.

Lord Jack McConnell urged Number 10 to rethink the decision taken this week, which will see the international development budget cut from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% in an effort to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.

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