There was no comfort in today’s spending review for those across all parties who care about international development. The reduction of Britain’s overseas aid budget to meagre 0.3 per cent will come back to haunt us.
There are plenty of people who argue that cutting overseas aid should not overly concern us. Why should foreign people in distant countries profit from the UK taxpayers’ hard-earned money? If any aspect of our budget is expendable, surely it is this.
