The Latest Breaking News from Foreign Aid

John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett join liberal justices to leave in place lower-court order on USAid cuts

High court’s ruling clears the way for nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding to be released

IN FOCUS: The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivation won’t convince the Maga crowd, advocates of aid spending will have to try a different argument

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to slash foreign aid from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP has raised eyebrows within his own party.

France has set up a commission to assess the impact and transparency of its development aid, following allegations by the far right that taxpayers' money is being squandered overseas – echoing similar claims by the United States administration, which has frozen its foreign aid programmes.

BACK in July 2021, Keir Starmer – then leader of the opposition – stood at the despatch box lamenting a Tory plan to slash the UK’s foreign…

Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding

COMMENT: Labour’s disgraceful attempt to balance the books on the backs of the poorest people in the world is shameful – but shows Dodds to be a politician of decency and principle, says former deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

Former Conservative deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell praises Labour MP as a ‘politician of decency and principle’