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6 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Labour is angry the govt has cut spending on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, which has trained police in Gulf dictatorships and genocidal Sri Lanka. In 2018 Labour said the Fund was "controversial and opaque" and should be scrapped altogether labour.org.uk/press/kate-osa…
If Lisa Nandy wants to protect national security, why is she defending a fund that was used to train Burmese military officers in the UK? globaljustice.org.uk/resources/conf…
Labour wants to keep us spending money on critical national security schemes such as...this vice.com/en/article/qv3…
Here's Margaret Beckett "blasting" the "slush fund" in The Sun in 2017

thesun.co.uk/news/2802221/s…

Now Nandy wants to protect it from cuts

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