Hundreds ofMillions to be cut from Foreign Aid budget.

I’m no expert but even superficial reading of the DFID website explains. Many of the programmes DfID supports in China are intended to be two-way exchanges, including projects to improve food security in low-income countries (not China), help increase resilience to disasters in Asia in general and build trade relationships with countries across Africa. The figure also includes the cost of sending expert consultants helping out green energy projects in Asia again under collaboration with China. Seems to me it’s not so simple a picture as that which seemingly winds up the tabloids and Iain Duncan Smith.
 
What I struggling a bit with is that foreign aid was meant to be 0.7% of GDP, so as our GDP has fallen significantly why do they have to legislate to cut it - it would have fallen anyway.

Not sure what these headlines are aiming for.
 
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