A three hour emergency debate on foreign aid cuts is taking place in the Commons
Andrew Mitchell says MPs opposed to aid cut have been described as rebels, "but it is the government that is rebelling" against its manifesto promise to keep the 0.7pc target
Boris Johnson's foreign aid cut is an "unlawful and unethical betrayal", says Andrew Mitchell
Mitchell says aid cut is like shaking hands on the price for a car, then doing a runner after handing over only part of the money
"It's not proper, it's fundamentally un-British and we shouldn't behave in this way"
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay says aid cut decision is "not easy" but country faces "a hugely difficult economic and fiscal situation"
He says coronavirus emergency packages have led to highest levels of peacetime borrowing on record
Barclay argues that loading ourselves with more debt now might well damage our ability to spend on aid later
1p would need to be put on income tax to cover cost of reversing aid cut, claims Chief Secretary Steve Barclay
Barclay: "For now, the tough choice is the right choice"
SNP's Ian Blackford says government minister "knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
Theresa May says she opposes aid cut as she stood on manifesto at last election to "proudly maintain" 0.7pc target
She says government is "taking pride" in the idea our economy will "bounce back this year" so Treasury argument doesn't make sense
Theresa May: "People don't listen to the UK because we are the UK, they listen to us because of what we do... cutting this will have an impact on our standing"
She says damage done to our reputation will make it harder to argue for change the country wants, including at Cop 26
Anthony Mangnall says to tackle terrorism, asylum and climate change "we have to be out there cooperating" at an international level
Mangnall says it is a "staggering miscalculation to ignore our international obligations and moral duties because we cannot protect ourselves at home if we do so"
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My beginner's guide to the Robert Jenrick/Richard Desmond planning row in 8 tweets 👇
🏗️Richard Desmond, the billionaire former newspaper tycoon, applied for planning permission to build a £1bn development, including 1,500 homes, on the site of the old Westferry printworks on the Isle of Dogs
🍽️ In November, Desmond sat next to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick at a Tory fundraising dinner at the Savoy Hotel and played him a video about the scheme on his mobile phone
Robert Jenrick refuses to apologise for moving between his homes in London and Herefordshire. Government guidance is that people should not be living in their second homes
A reminder for those saying he's not broken the rules by shifting to his home in Herefordshire:
+ the govt has told people not to stay in their 2nd homes
+ he and his wife work in London
+ his children go to school in London
+ his own website says he lives in London and Newark
Government on 23 March told people staying in second homes to return to their primary residence asap