Cutting the aid budget from the symbolically important 0.7% of national income to 0.5% seems weird for a PM who said Brexit was about creating Global Britain - and when the UK is about to chair the G7 and COP26. Not at all clear why @BorisJohnson wants this fight...

especially with his own party. This is what @David_Cameron said about the plan to @Telegraph on Saturday: “Abandoning the .7 target for aid would be a moral, strategic and political mistake. Moral, because we should be keeping our promises to the worlds poorest...

not breaking them. A strategic error, because we would be signalling retreat from one of the UK’s vital acts of global leadership. And a political mistake because the U.K. is about to chair the G7 and important climate change negotiations”. Since the 0.7% is law and...

in the Tory manifesto, Johnson will struggle to get this cut ratified by parliament. I wonder if he and @RishiSunak will back down before the formal announcement at 12.30