Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeBoris Johnson has suffered a fierce Tory backlash over his plans for a £4 billion cut to the UK's foreign aid budget. Furious Tory MPs urged the Prime Minister in the Commons to stick to a manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on help for the world's poorest. Ex-PM Theresa May warned the plan would have a "devastating impact" on the world's poorest people and do serious "damage" to Britain's international reputation. Former Cabinet minister David Davis also rubbished suggestions that new Tory voters in traditional Labour heartlands are against foreign aid spending. Yet Britain is the only G7 nation planning to cut foreign aid this year.

Source: Daily Mirror June 08, 2021 18:14 UTC