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🔴 Boris Johnson faces being defeated by a Conservative Party rebellion with 30 Tory MPs, including former PM Theresa May, having signed an amendment to reverse savage cuts to Britain’s international aid budget.

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The number of rebels doubled overnight, with May joining one-time ministers Stephen Crabb and Johnny Mercer in adding her name to a rebel Tory amendment aiming to restore British foreign aid spending to 0.7% of national income

“The rebels are pretty confident they have the votes.”

A source told us that the government could be set to reverse the foreign cuts rather than risk the prospect of a Commons defeat on Monday

But let’s take a step back...

Earlier this year, @PeterKGeoghegan revealed that the British government had plans to slash hundreds of millions of pounds in foreign aid to countries in conflict zones around the world
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In March, former Tory minister Chris Patten said that Boris Johnson was refusing to give MPs a say on the cuts because the government would lose a vote on the matter
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We then revealed that the cuts could see an 80% reduction in anti-corruption work.

The government was accused of ‘turning its back on the world’
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Thousands of academics signed an open letter calling on the UK government to reverse the decision
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During one of our live discussions, Andrew Mitchell MP said the government believed reducing #ForeignAid would “go down well” with voters in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ seats in the north of England

Do you think Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab should give MP's a vote on foreign aid cuts?

If you think MPs should be given a vote on these cuts before the government pushes them through, sign up for our campaign here 👇
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