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The International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds resigned Friday in Sir Keir Starmer’s protests to fund a £ 6bn defense spending by the flow of budget with help in the UK help.
“In the end, these cuts will remove food and health care from desperate people – harm the reputation in the UK,” as a letter to the Prime Minister.
Starmmer says this week is the annual increase in military spending In 2027 the fund fully by cutting the UK budget of £ 15.3bn aid from 0.5 percent of gross national income of 0.3 percent.
His move was first his visit on Thursday in the US President Donald Trump, who called NATO companions in Washington to increase the expenditure of defense.
Trump administration has all also shutdown to US agency for international development, the main channel for $ 43bn worth of help and development programs.
“I know you clearly disobey international progress,” Dodds wrote to the starmer. “But the fact is that this decision is already being described as follows President Trump’s sliptream of USAID cuts.”
With sadness I need to drown my giving up as minister for international progress and for women and similarities.
While I disagree with the decision of Oda, I continue to support the government and the determination of delivering the change required in our country. Pic.twitter.com/44scrx2p8z
– Annelies Dodds (@nannelies depdeds) February 28, 2025
Before the power over the past year, Labor Party condemned the cutting of international assistance made by the previous conservative government.
Photograph This week said further expenditures of defense to obtain the total UK military budget up to 2.5 percent of GDP.
He added that in the next parliament, it is expected to run from 2029 to 2034, the UK will seek to hit the level 3 percent of GDP.
“3 percent can only be started, and it is impossible to raise many resources needed through tactical cuts of public spending,” public letter. “These are those who have never been times, if strategic decisions for our country’s security cannot be ducked.”