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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak announced cuts to the foreign aid budget today, prompting the resignation of a Foreign Office minister.
Baroness (Liz) Sugg, whose brief included sustainable development, said pledges to maintain overseas aid should be kept in the “tough times as well as the good.”
She resigned in protest against Mr Sunak’s announcement that aid will be cut to 0.5 per cent of gross national income in 2021 — breaking promises made in the Conservative manifesto that it would not be reduced.
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7
