George Osborne said yesterday he would use the autumn spending review to tilt Britain’s £12bn-a-year aid budget towards humanitarian causes in the wake of the European refugee crisis.
The chancellor said the government would use all future increases in the aid budget to deal with crises such as people fleeing Syria. “This is part of a fundamental rethink,” said a Treasury aide.
Britain is committed to spending 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product on aid, meaning the budget could rise sharply by the end of the decade as the economy grows.
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