The Minister of Development is resigned in protest against Kiir Starmer’s assistance discounts

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On Friday, the Minister of International Development Dodds resigned in protest against Sir Kerr Starmer’s decision to finance an increase in defense spending of 6 billion pounds by reducing the UK aid budget, in a sign of the political outcome of the efforts made by the United States.

“In the end, these discounts will remove food and health care from desperate people – which strongly harms the reputation of the UK,” Duds said in a letter to the Prime Minister.

Starmer announced on Tuesday 6 billion pounds annually annually An increase in military spending By 2027 she said that it will be fully funded by reducing the budget of 15.3 billion pounds in the United Kingdom from 0.5 percent of the total national income to 0.3 percent.

The sudden departure of Dods is the first resignation by a minister due to the principle of politics since Starmer took office in July last year.

He talks about a broader discomfort between the spaces of workers’ deputies about the decisions taken by the Middle East on policies ranging from benefits to luxury against the narrow financial background.

The reduced aid budget will be 9.2 billion pounds, according to estimates of the House of Commons Library, but about half of this amount can be spent locally, including housing asylum seekers.

The general statement of the General Elections of the Labor Party promised last year to raise spending on aid to 0.7 per cent “as soon as financial conditions allow.”

Starmer has previously announced defense spending on Thursday to meet with US President Donald Trump, who called on NATO partners in Washington to increase defense spending.

The Trump administration also closed all of the US Agency for International Development, which is the main channel for US aid and development programs worth $ 43 billion a year.

“I know you were clear that you do not oppose ideological international development”, ” Dodds Written to Starmer. “But the truth is that this decision is already photographed as it is followed by President Trump’s fall from discounts to the United States Agency for International Development.”

She added that it would be “impossible” to maintain the support of Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, as well as vaccination and climate support programs, “given the depth of discounts.”

Before winning the authority last year, the Labor Party condemned discounts to the international aid provided by the previous conservative government.

Duds, who is on the left of the party, was a shadow consultant in 2020 and Cash When the adviser, Rishi Sonak, cut off the Conservative Party, he violated his party’s statement.

She was only informed of the Starmer plan to reduce the aid budget on Monday, as Dodds confirmed in its message. She added that she stopped resignation until the Prime Minister returned from Washington.

Starmer said in a message in response to Dodds, who attended the cabinet:

“We will do our best to return to a world that is not the case and rebuild the ability to develop,” he wrote. “However, protecting our national security must be the first duty of any government and I will always work in the interest of the British people.”

The Prime Minister also pledged to continue providing support in the worst conflict areas in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.

Downting Street said later on Friday that Baroneh Jenny Chapman, a close ally of Starmer, was appointed Minister of International Development.

Almost a third of the UK aid budget was spent on supporting the local asylum system in 2023.

The thinking center analysis at the World Development Center found that even if the UK spending on asylum decreases by 30 percent, UK actual spending on international aid will be closer to 0.17 percent of GNI, the lowest level in the Group of Seven.

In a message on Thursday, Lord Mark Malush Brown, former Deputy Secretary -General of the United Nations and Minister of Gordon Brown, told Starmer along with diplomatic and academic figures, to give an urgent look at alternatives to payment in exchange for high defense spending, including the introduction of defense tax, capital tax and income taxes.

The signatories wrote: “Weakening the UK’s commitment to the dangers of international development that exacerbate global threats with global stability and security threats that seek to address defense spending.”

Curtain This week, the growing defensive spending will become the total military budget in the United Kingdom to 2.5 percent of GDP.

He added that in the next parliament, it is expected to continue from 2029 to 2034, the United Kingdom will seek to reach the level of 3 percent of GDP.

In her message, Dodds acknowledged that the global matter after the war “has decreased”, which requires higher defensive expenses, but said that she expected a collective discussion on the financial rules of the situation and the tax approach.

“They were completely destroyed. It’s great, worked hard, and never complained, I was regularly placed in positions completely impossible and it was always sincere.”

Dodds was one of many of the left callers who were in the original shadow cabinet in Starmer, but it was marginalized when the Labor Party leader turned the party to the right.

She was His rank was reduced in May 2021 From the shadow consultant to the party leader and last July, he obtained government roles for both the Minister of International Development and the Minister of Women and Equality.

This story was modified to clarify that Annelies Dodds was a minister who attended the Council of Ministers