For a country as wealthy as Britain, 0.7% is the very least we can offer https://twitter.com/labourcid/status/1331297939055124482

The UK should continue to spend at least 0.7% of national income on international aid because it is partly responsible for the structural poverty in the recipient countries.

The colonisation of large swathes of the Global South and the commercial slavery of millions of men, women and children, led to unprecedented levels of extreme poverty. Independence and capitalism did not bring these conditions to an end.

Rather, this poverty became structural, with the International Monetary Fund, a hugely-powerful Western institution, imposing harmful market liberalisation policies on these countries in return for debt relief.

This prevents governments from investing in public services like healthcare and education, and in national industries, trapping its people in poverty and dependence.