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£2.9bn foreign aid budget cut ‘a choice not a necessity,’ says campaign group
Global Justice Now says the government has used the pandemic as an excuse to make the unnecessary cut
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, during a press conference at Lancaster House in central London
CAMPAIGNERS criticised the government today for announcing a £2.9 billion cut to its foreign aid budget and using the pandemic as an excuse to do so.
Daniel Willis, aid campaigner at Global Justice Now, said that ministers had made a “choice” to make the cut and that doing so is “not a necessity, even at a time like this.”
He added that the government’s goal to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on foreign aid should be “a minimum, not a limit.”
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