Anneliese Dodds Set To Increase Foreign Aid Budget
Whilst Reeves has been busy cancelling the Winter Fuel Payments for our pensioners, Dodds has been busy increasing our foreign aid budget from 0.5% to 0.7% of our gross national income (GNI). Something is very wrong here ...'Britain’s new Labour administration said it aims to roll back deep cuts to overseas aid for the world’s poorest.LONDON - Britain's new Labour government aims to restore overseas development spending to 0.7% of economic output but cannot yet commit to a timeframe due to "quite difficult" fiscal circumstances, development minister Anneliese Dodds has said.Britain's Conservative government had reduced overseas aid from 0.7% to 0.5% of gross national income (GNI) in 2020 to free up cash for domestic spending during COVID-19. Development to address climate change, poverty, hunger and migration was a "critical priority" for the new government, Dodds told Reuters in a July interview. "We are really determined to do what we can to try and get back to 0.7 ... But we are going to have to do that, as I said, when fiscal circumstances allow, and fiscal circumstances are quite difficult in the UK at the moment," Dodds said.'But she is going to do it anyway, and sod the pensioners!
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