Owen Tudor
I’ll comment tomorrow on today’s DFID decision to move aid spending from one group of countries to another, and one set of international institutions to another set. But the one thing most people are sure of is that the Government is as committed to spend as much money as Labour had planned, and that the Conservatives have, as they promised in the election, ring-fenced the aid budget. Well, not quite. As Harriet Harman repeated today, between now and 2013, when the Government plans to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on overseas aid, a Labour Government would have spent £2.2bn more on overseas aid than the current Government plans to.
Richard Exell
Anjum Klair
Scarlet Harris
