There& #39;s a pandemic hitting poorer countries hard. We& #39;re about to become buccaneering & #39;global Britain& #39;.

So let& #39;s cut international aid funding from 0.7% to 0.5% of GDP! When GDP is smaller anyway this year anyway because of said pandemic! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55053719">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5...

It astonishes me that a rich country like the UK can& #39;t even find 1p in every £1 to help billions of people around the world living in poverty. Fighting over whether it should be 0.5p or 0.7p is just awful.

Even if you& #39;re entirely cynical and don& #39;t care about helping people, overseas aid is an investment: a more prosperous world means a bigger market for UK products, and international aid is a huge source of & #39;soft power& #39;, which surely & #39;global Britain& #39; needs.

Great thread on what our 0.7% of GDP actually does, and how incredibly transparent we are about how it& #39;s spent, and whether or not it& #39;s working https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1331190086277459970">https://twitter.com/s8mb/stat...