Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to cut the aid budget in order to increase defence spending as “necessary for the protection of our country”, amid rampant criticism. Sacrificing aid funding to bolster Britain’s war chest was branded “reckless” by charities and aid organisations, who labelled it a “betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable”. […]

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