Sir Keir Starmer on cuts to UK foreign aid spending levels
The Labour leader said "no-one in the House" was expecting the UK to spend as much on foreign aid as it was spending before Covid.
Sir Keir Starmer claimed the chancellor was planning a "double lock" against reverting to 0.7% of spending ring-fenced to help other nations, if MPs back plans to cut that figure to 0.5%.
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