“OVERSEAS aid is an investment in conflict prevention,” the Bishop to the Armed Forces, the Rt Revd Hugh Nelson, has said. To cut foreign aid from 0.5 to 0.3 per cent of GDP to fund UK defence “is both morally wrong and strategically unwise”, he said. The seeds of tomorrow’s conflicts are being sown today, and overseas aid is an investment in conflict prevention. The Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge, described her resignation as “an honourable act in the face of a terrible situation”. The chief executive of Christian Aid, Patrick Watt, welcomed Ms Dodds’s “strong stand” against the “brutal” aid cuts.
