It’s been a dramatic couple of days here at openDemocracy.
Over the past 48 hours, Westminster has been dominated by the threat of a Tory rebellion over the government's massive foreign aid budget cuts, which thousands of our readers have signed our petition against. Aid cuts, that is, which my colleague Peter Geoghegan first revealed after their details were leaked to him. Aid cuts which directly contradicted the government’s promises at the last election, and which provoked shock across the political spectrum.
As I write, a debate on these cuts is finally taking place in the chamber. And rebel MPs tell us they still hope to force a vote down the line.
