Now the government has set out its spending plans for the next three years, we can see the true scale of the horrors to come from more than £5 billion of aid budget cuts – and the picture could not be bleaker.
When the prime minister announced his intention to slash international development spending to its lowest level this century many of us hoped the worst damage could be avoided. Instead, the Home Office will continue to raid the aid budget for the costs of housing asylum seekers in this country, instead of spending it on health, education and humanitarian programmes overseas as intended.
