UK international help cuts: What influence will it have? – BBC Newsnight
As MPs vote to approve a £4bn reduce within the international help funds, what influence will it have and what does it inform us concerning the authorities’s priorities? Please subscribe HERE
The federal government has fended off an try by MPs to drive it to reverse its reduce to spending on abroad help.
The Home of Commons voted by a majority of 35 to maintain the funds for worldwide growth at 0.5% of nationwide revenue.
However a number of Tory MPs joined Labour and different events in an try and reinstate the 0.7% determine in place till earlier this 12 months.
Ministers say the reduce is required to maintain public debt down through the pandemic.
The federal government has confronted cross-party criticism over the discount – together with from all of the UK’s residing former prime ministers – which quantities to nearly £4bn.
However what influence will the reduce have? BBC Newsnight’s Nick Watt studies.
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