The news that the new International Development Secretary is about to slash development spending and channel Britain’s aid budget into defence spending is yet another major slip of the new government’s centrist mask.
Theresa May has tried to pitch her policy agenda as prioritising social justice and a “Britain that works for everyone” but the reality is that this announcement is the true right-wing colours of her government shining through.
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