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The UK, in reality, has been an outlier along with the Scandinavians. If socialist Spain starts kicking up, they are on 0.21%. Internationally, it will not be easy for the French or Germans to complain since they only spent 0.44% and 0.6% respectively in 2019. Conservative whips claim cutting the aid budget may not be popular in some leafy Tory suburbs, but in the “red wall” areas, this is red meat for some working-class voters who want the government “to look after number one”. The issue now is whether Johnson or the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will suffer any political damage either internationally or domestically for dumping this manifesto pledge. Critics of the now merged departments will point to the fact that at the first time of asking, the Foreign Office was unable, or unwilling, to defend the aid budget from a twin attack mounted by the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence. By this summer, Boris Johnson – who had always wanted to subsume DfID into the Foreign Office – got his way. The proportion of the aid budget spent by departments other than DfID rose, leading to claims that the spending was either less transparent or less focused on poverty alleviation. Since 2015, the budget has been under relentless attack. Nevertheless, by 2019 the total aid budget was £15.2bn, representing about 1.7% of total public spending, a larger proportion than ever.

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Since his departure, the department has churned through five different secretaries of state, some of whom spent much of their time wishing they were somewhere else, running an independent foreign policy or briefing rightwing media about how they were going to crack down on waste. He matched that by appointing two committed international development secretaries, Andrew Mitchell and Justine Greening. National pride was measured not just by military hardware, but whether Britain pitched up when it came to the big crises, “whether hurricanes or earthquakes or tsunamis or pandemics”. If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.” I remember where I was during Live Aid in 1985. Cameron suddenly came alight, saying: “I think what people think about these summits is that frankly a bunch of people in suits get together, make some promises, particularly to the world’s poorest, and then go in and have a good lunch and forget about the promises. At a largely routine press conference, at the close of the G8 meeting in Deauville in 2011, he was challenged by a reporter from the Daily Mail as to why the G8’s own reports showed only the UK was so naive as to meet its overseas aid targets. Once in office, and austerity had struck in the wake of the financial crash in 2008, Cameron chose to make an issue of defending the aid target from relentless tabloid assault. It was at one level an acceptance of the Blair-Brown settlement on the importance of helping Africa, symbolised by the G8 summit in Gleneagles and the Live 8 concerts in the summer of 2005. But from the opening speech of his bid to be Conservative leader in 2005, aid was a vehicle through which he took the party in a new direction, saying: “When the Conservative party talks about international affairs, it can’t just be Gibraltar and Zimbabwe – we’ve got to show as much passion about Darfur and the millions of people living on less than a dollar a day in sub-Saharan Africa, who are getting poorer while we are getting richer.” But for the second three months of 2015, growth was pushed up to 1.8 per cent from the previous target of 1.5 per cent.It is easy to dismiss Cameron’s commitment to the policy as a piece of clever Tory window dressing – something to which he could point whenever someone shouted “nasty party” at him. Wednesday’s Monetary Policy Report slashed the first-quarter forecast to zero from the January estimate of 1.5 per cent. In fact, they believe oil-fueled concerns will translate into stalled growth between January and March. Those uncertainties have led Poloz and his policymakers to pull back on their economic growth forecasts for this year. Don’t bet the factory on Canada: Why the falling loonie won’t spur a manufacturing revival.IMF cuts Canada’s growth outlook amid oil collapse.Weak Canadian dollar fails to boost manufacturing sector as sales suffer biggest two-month slump since the recession.Still, the price of crude - Canada’s biggest export, which has fallen 50 per cent since the summer - and the timing of any sustained recovery remain the wild card for forecasters. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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