{"id":248790,"date":"2025-02-28T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/international-development-minister-anneliese-dodds-quits-over-aid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:53:35","slug":"international-development-minister-anneliese-dodds-quits-over-aid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/international-development-minister-anneliese-dodds-quits-over-aid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"International Development minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned over the prime minister’s cuts to the aid budget.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the prime minister,<\/a> Dodds said the cuts to international aid, announced earlier this week to fund an increase in defence spending, would “remove food and healthcare from desperate people – deeply harming the UK’s reputation”.<\/p>\n

She told Sir Keir Starmer she had delayed her resignation until after his meeting with President Trump, saying it was “imperative that you had a united cabinet behind you as you set off for Washington”.<\/p>\n

The MP said it was with “sadness” that she was resigning, adding she knew Sir Keir was not “ideologically opposed” to international development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of his trip to meet Trump, Sir Keir announced aid funding would be reduced from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% in 2027 in order to fund an increase in defence spending. <\/p>\n

Defending the move, the prime minister said it was “not a decision I wanted to make” but added there was “no driver of migration and poverty like conflict”.<\/p>\n

In her resignation letter, Dodds warned that the cut would “also likely lead to a UK pull-out from numerous African, Caribbean and Western Balkan nations – at a time when Russia has been aggressively increasing its global presence”.<\/p>\n

“It will likely lead to withdrawal from regional banks and a reduced commitment to the World Bank; the UK being shut out of numerous multilateral bodies; and a reduced voice for the UK in the G7, G20 and in climate negotiations.”<\/p>\n

Dodds said the post-war global order had “come crashing down” and that she welcomed an increase in defence spending.<\/p>\n

“I stood ready to work with you to deliver that increased spending, knowing some might well have had to come from ODA [overseas development assistance].<\/p>\n

“I also expected we would collectively discuss our fiscal rules and approach to taxation, as other nations are doing.”<\/p>\n

However, Dodds said that instead of taking this approach the prime minister had decided to allow the ODA to “absorb the entire burden”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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