U.K. development minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned over her government’s decision to cut aid spending.
Dodds’ decision follows an announcement last week by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that aid would be cut to 0.3% of gross national income, from its current level of 0.5%, from 2027 onwards.
Starmer said the cut was necessary to pay for an increase in defense spending.
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David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
