Anneliese Dodds has quit as International Development Minister over Keir Starmer's decision slash the foreign aid budget by 40% to pay for higher defence spending, saying it looks like following in Trump's footsteps.
President Donald Trump will fire about 9,400 workers from USAID, deeming only 611 as essential employees, as he pledges to "close down" the entire Government agency.
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
Keir Starmer's pledge to end new HIV cases by 2030 glosses over a crucial truth: it is immigration, not just health, that is driving up HIV infections in the UK, says Nick Rendell.
The Government has cancelled the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners but still plans to splurge £12bn on international 'climate aid'. And that's not even the half of it, says Ben Pile.
The U.K. is housing so many asylum seekers that more than half the foreign aid budget earmarked for poor countries is now being spent in Britain, new figures suggest.
Since January, the West has given Ukraine €41 billion in military aid. The US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand account for almost 80% of this. Though the Baltic states have given a higher % of GDP in aid.
