Parts of the £13 billion aid budget will be allocated to helping Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma JACK HILL/THE TIMESBritish aid will be spent on supporting the government’s foreign policy rather than on only helping the world’s poor, Boris Johnson has vowed. In a promise to shake up international development spending, the foreign secretary said the money would be “more sensibly distributed” to support Britain’s policy goals in addition to poverty relief. Parts of the £13 billion aid budget will be diverted to support British efforts to deny safe havens to Islamist terrorists in Africa, Yemen and in refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims fleeing across the Burmese border into Bangladesh. “The old jam jars are being smashed,” Mr Johnson told The Sunday Times. “The cash will be more sensibly distributed with a view to supporting British foreign policy.

Source: The Times January 01, 2018 00:02 UTC