Government accused of ‘sneaking out a statement at the end of the day’ and leaving out previous allocations to avoid comparison
The UK has released the first details of how it intends to impose as much as £4bn worth of cuts to international aid, prompting campaigners to accuse the government of having “lost its moral compass”.
The long-awaited statement on planned spending for 2021-22 did not fully spell out future commitments for specific countries or programmes, but its new classifications for how it plans to distribute £8.1bn in aid imply massive reductions in key areas.
