MPs have backed Boris Johnson’s cuts to foreign aid spending, despite many in his own party rebelling against the “morally reprehensible” plans.
Spending on overseas development was slashed from 0.7% to 0.5% of national income earlier this year, amounting to almost £4bn.
The cuts will be reversed only once government debt is falling and it is no longer borrowing to finance day-to-day spending – a position the UK has not been in since 1970, according to one MP.
