UK foreign aid

UK lawmakers voted to confirm a foreign aid cut of £4bn, described as a temporary reduction while the country recovered from corona spending.

Five former globalism-backing prime ministers are putting pressure on Boris Johnson to ditch plans to lower the UK’s aid commitment to divert taxpayer money back into the country to counteract the devastation to the British economy caused by the Chinese coronavirus.

The United Kingdom has reportedly been sending millions of pounds sterling to the communist Chinese state in foreign aid, subsidising one of the world’s largest economies as well as one of the most totalitarian regimes on Earth.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently considering a short-term cut to foreign aid spending amidst huge budgetary shortfalls due to the economic damage caused by the Chinese coronavirus and the ensuing lockdown restrictions. The government is drafting plans to decrease

A former Secretary of State for International Development has revealed that at least five suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrators are living openly in Britain, with four of them living on taxpayer-funded state benefits. 

An aid watchdog has slammed the government for exaggerating the number of women’s lives it saved with taxpayer’s money spent on its maternal health initiatives.

Last year the British taxpayer funded almost 100 “aid” projects in China, a world superpower with a space program, massive army, and the second biggest economy in the world.

Despite the government promising to stop giving hand-outs to the wealthy nation, more than £47 million of UK taxpayer cash was handed to China in 2016.

The UK’s foreign aid budget soared by £555 million to almost £14 billion last year – meaning it has more than doubled in roughly a decade.

The UK is likely to offer as much as £1.4 billion of the nation’s foreign aid budget to European Union (EU) institutions to spend after Brexit.

One in seven aid charities taking taxpayers’ money to spend abroad have now reported conduct breaches, with dozens of new claims of abuse, including paedophilia, the International Aid Secretary has said.

British taxpayers’ money has been directed to jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda as part of a shady foreign aid programme in Syria.

International aid rules mean British territories flattened and left in “anarchy” by Hurricane Irma are ineligible to receive funds from the UK’s foreign aid budget.

Senior Conservatives are calling for the government to scrap the legally enshrined rule forcing the UK to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid, making more funds available to the military.

Unethical behaviour is “absolutely embedded” in the culture of the foreign aid industry, which is overcharging the taxpayer, MPs said Monday night.

Millions of pounds of British aid is being spent to send migrants to “squalid” camps in Libya where they are regularly abused by guards, a watchdog has said.

Britain says it has ended millions of dollars in funding for an Ethiopian girl band, amid growing criticism at home of overseas aid. Yegna, sometimes called “Ethiopia’s Spice Girls,” addresses women’s issues in the East African country.

Britain is to send an extra £100 million of foreign aid to Pakistan despite the country being able to finance its own nuclear weapon and space programmes.

The UK’s massive foreign aid budget is helping to fund middle-class luxuries in booming economise, including Pakistan’s version of Amazon, Chinese restaurant chains, online gambling websites, five-star hotels and luxury shopping malls.

The National Audit Office has said the private investment arm of the UK’s foreign aid department cannot prove its work makes a lasting difference to people’s lives.

An ORB poll has revealed more than twice as many voters think the UK’s ring-fenced aid budget should be scrapped than would keep it in place. Seven in ten respondents want to see an end to the 0.7 per cent

Spending on foreign aid will outstrip the amount of money given to local councils in the UK for the first time next year, according to official government estimates. The Treasury’s Budget book shows that spending on international development will hit

A BBC department that produced a radio drama giving practical tips to would-be migrants on how to cross from Somalia to Europe received nearly £90 million of British tax payers’ money. The drama, broadcast to Somalia and Kenya at the

The British government is in danger of missing a key borrowing target thanks in part to spending £800 million on foreign aid this year. The Office for National Statistics says public sector net borrowing jumped £1.3 billion year-on-year in November,

Britain, the European Union and various United Nations welfare agencies combined over the past 16 months to build the world’s second-biggest and best refugee camp. The tent city stands in the baking Jordanian desert, 55 miles from the Syrian border, and today it