'We made a promise' fallout from UK's cut in overseas aid remains to be seen
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David Cameron’s commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income to help world’s poorest under threat
UK’s foreign aid budget to be reduced to 0.5% of gross national income
The former prime minister David Cameron’s political legacy will be permanently dominated by Brexit, an event he misjudged and abhorred. But until now he could at least comfort himself with one positive foreign policy achievement to his name: he was prime minister when the UK for the first time met its goal of spending 0.7% of its gross national income on overseas aid, and also enshrined it in law in 2015, so apparently entrenching Britain’s commitment to the world’s poorest.
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