Care Starmer is facing a background revolution exhaustion Representatives this week, where anger escalates on the government’s decision to reduce the international development budget by nearly half in order to pay in exchange for increasing defense spending.
The Chairman of the Committee for the Committee in all parties on international development, Sarah Batal, who has already called on the government to rethink the decision, was a discussion in the House of Commons on Wednesday, in which dozens of participants in the work in interfering to express their dissatisfaction.
One of those who might speak, according to colleagues, is Annelies Dodds, who resigned as Minister of International Development Friday.
In her resignation letter, Dodds, which was a previously -based ally of Starmer, suggested that a discussion about changing the government’s financial rules to avoid having to reduce international aid before making a decision.
There is also increasing concern about deployment through ministerial ranks about the number of basic work policies that will be thrown abroad to allow the government to stay within the financial ruling imposed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves of not borrowing on daily spending.
A government source said: “This is the real discussion now. What will be left next? With everything that is going on in the world, what will the work program be left?”
Other sources said that all of this was increasing defensive spending, as Donald Trump demanded, as was necessary, but “sacred areas” of politics were needed.
It is also possible that the admission to aid decision will appear when Starmer makes a statement to the House of Commons early this week on Visit the White HouseAnd on his subsequent meetings with Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski And European leaders.
Labor Party representatives are also expected to talk about reducing aid during a discussion on Thursday on International Women’s Day. In recent years, the debate has become suitable for deputies to focus on violence against women and girls. This year, charitable institutions such as Care International have arranged for celebrities to focus on women’s rights all over the world in response to lowering American aid and the Trump administration of reproductive rights.
Writing to observer Online today Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington, occupies a special special advisor to the late Labor Party advisor, Esteri Darling, to criticize aid discounts, saying that the world will become less secure. “National Defense and International Development are two aspects of the same currency,” she wrote. “Our long -term security requires us to invest in both.”
Depending on its experience in living in Kenya before becoming a deputy in the last elections, Darlington says: “Like many African countries, Kenya has tremendous potential but also has a violent modern history and is exposed to the threat of international terrorism. So when the United States or the United Kingdom withdraws funding for clinics that provide sexual and reproductive health services, young women cannot control their lives. When the United States or the United Kingdom withdraws the financing of the plans To combat young people who feed on misleading information, the risks are to become more recruited by malicious actors, armed groups and even terrorist networks.
On Friday, Lady Chapman was appointed from Labor co -workers as Dodds as Minister of International Development, a decision that also caused a dismay between the deputies of all parties and relief groups, who complained that as a member of the House of Lords, he will not be able to answer questions in the House of Commons on aid issues.
“The decision to put a minister from the House of Lords responsible for international development is an integral part of the failure of the work government to understand that international development contributes to safety, security and prosperity,” said former Minister of International Development Andrew Mitchell, a conservative party deputy.
Mitchell suggested that it was also wrong that “no deputies would be able to question them routinely” in general.
After Starmer made a decision to champion development aid, the aid champion said: “Reducing the budget for defense spending is a false economy that will make the world only safely.
In 2023, Ukraine received 250 million pounds in the United Kingdom, more than any other country. We cannot simply undermine this investment by putting more in the war box. “
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Although there will be no separate vote on the aid decision after a discussion on Wednesday, the deputies say that the discussion will show the extent of unrest on the labor Backbenches as well as anxiety among other parties.
Today, the executive directors of many NGOs in the country issued a statement to observer Concluding the decision to reduce the international aid budget. They say: “It is very disappointing, after watching the members of Parliament in the Labor Party, protesting against the previous government’s discounts on aid in the United Kingdom in 2021, the Prime Minister and the treasury of the same path took the same path.”
“Given the obligations of the Labor Party’s work and promised them to restore the reputation of the United Kingdom as a reliable global partner, we were hoping that it would be a clear plan to gradually return to the goal of aid by 0.7 %.
Instead, without any clear evaluation of the influence or consideration of the consequences, they again renewed the budget of aid in the UK already, leaving those who face conflict, poverty and climate change bearing the cost of the UK’s financial options.
“This was not an inevitable decision. The Labor Party had alternatives, such as 2 % modest wealth tax on assets that exceed 10 million pounds – which affects only 0.04 % of the population – which can generate 24 billion pounds annually. Instead of following more just financing solutions, they chose a path that leaves their credibility in international development in a state of Persians and destroys a place UK on the global stage.
Among the signers of Halima Begum, CEO of Oxfam GB, CEOFAM CEO, CAFOD, Catholic Development Agency, Adrian Lofit, CEO of one company, a non -party organization that defends investments in economic opportunities and the most healthy life in Africa, Rose Caldwell, CEO of Plaan Company International UK, Patrick Watt, Executive Director of the beneficiary Help Romlie Greenhill, CEO of Bond Network, UK Network of NGOs working on international development.
On Wednesday, labor and peer deputies fill a meeting hall in Parliament to inform them of the Prime Minister’s announcement. Defense Secretary John Healy joined the Minister of Africa, Lord Collins, to face dozens of angry imprisoned.
Representatives said that many work men, including Harriet Harman, Peter Hein and Paul Boateng, were in the audience.
There was a special focus on the deputies’ questions on the amount of external aid that the Ministry of Interior still uses to pay the price of asylum seekers in hotels. The Global Development Center estimates that after the implementation of the cuts, about half of the aid budget in the United Kingdom will be spent as a result.
In an attempt to clarify work deputies, the ministers gave assurances that there will be no discounts in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) until 2027, but this was not repeated in the written briefing sent to the deputies via email on the same day. Prime Minister AdvertisementAfter the cabinet meeting where the ministers were informed of the decision, aid will be reduced from 0.5 % to 0.3 % of the total national income when defensive spending rises to 2.5 % of GDP in 2027. Representatives demand that FCDO now evaluate a rapid effect before making discounts. Charitable institutions are filling their supporters to dump e -mail funds from deputies and use social media to link Starmer’s decision with Trump’s lack of popularity. The internet anems, which is a mastermind, is distributed masterpiece with a tear that pulls Starmer chains in an echo of American charities using Trump’s photos that Elon Musk is exposed to.
