UK aid budget 'totally transformed' as another £1.5B cut looms

“These new plans confirm our worst fears: the UK can hardly call this ‘foreign’ aid when the Home Office spends more of it at home than the FCDO spends in developing countries in total,” said Ranil Dissanayake, senior research fellow at the Center for Global Development. “It’s a complete break with the past, and a total transformation of our aid budget. No-one could possibly justify these allocations on development grounds.”