There's a pandemic hitting poorer countries hard. We're about to become buccaneering 'global Britain'.

So let'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

It astonishes me that a rich country like the UK can'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're entirely cynical and don'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 'soft power', which surely 'global Britain' needs.

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