Postcolonial Britain has asserted itself in the world through development aid. But it is now cutting aid in favor of defense ...

Keir Starmer once advised against cutting foreign aid over the boost it could give to countries like Russia, it has emerged. Last week, the prime minister announced he was slashing the international ...

The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with ...

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It warns that more than a third of Britain’s future “foreign aid” cash could end up covering asylum and refugee costs and ...

Keir Starmer is facing a mounting Labour backlash over his decision to slash foreign aid to boost defence spending. The prime ...

Foreign aid is shrinking. Lawrence Haddad calls for a rethink of foreign aid, urging smarter investments, leveraging private ...

The UK signed up to a UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on aid way back in 1970, but didn’t hit that level until 2013 ...

Overseas development has always fallen in and out of favour between governments. But this feels different – and terminal.

and a friendly nation to the UK. So let me try another argument: foreign aid is what great nations do. The Roman Empire did it: it provided food supplies to neighbouring states to keep borders secure.