British foreign aid is being directed to areas of the world that are wealthier than some sections of the UK, including to fund projects in China, a study found.
The United Kingdom has reportedly been sending millions of pounds sterling to the communist Chinese state in foreign aid, subsidising one of the world’s largest economies as well as one of the most totalitarian regimes on Earth.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to grant peerages to Tory Brexiteers in order to rebalance the remainer-dominated House of Lords, according to a report.
An aid watchdog has slammed the government for exaggerating the number of women’s lives it saved with taxpayer’s money spent on its maternal health initiatives.
Last year the British taxpayer funded almost 100 “aid” projects in China, a world superpower with a space program, massive army, and the second biggest economy in the world.
The UK is to hand almost £100 million in “aid” to India, one of the world’s largest economies, despite the nation spending almost the same figure on a new moon landing.
Former British prime minister David Cameron has attempted a political comeback, speaking about how to defeat the rise of populism in Europe at a globalist conference.
Despite the government promising to stop giving hand-outs to the wealthy nation, more than £47 million of UK taxpayer cash was handed to China in 2016.
Unethical behaviour is “absolutely embedded” in the culture of the foreign aid industry, which is overcharging the taxpayer, MPs said Monday night.
The UK’s massive foreign aid budget is helping to fund middle-class luxuries in booming economise, including Pakistan’s version of Amazon, Chinese restaurant chains, online gambling websites, five-star hotels and luxury shopping malls.
An ORB poll has revealed more than twice as many voters think the UK’s ring-fenced aid budget should be scrapped than would keep it in place. Seven in ten respondents want to see an end to the 0.7 per cent
Spending on foreign aid will outstrip the amount of money given to local councils in the UK for the first time next year, according to official government estimates. The Treasury’s Budget book shows that spending on international development will hit
The British government is in danger of missing a key borrowing target thanks in part to spending £800 million on foreign aid this year. The Office for National Statistics says public sector net borrowing jumped £1.3 billion year-on-year in November,
MPs have uncovered massive waste in the EU’s aid spending programmes, to which the UK is a major contributor. Thanks to a culture within the European Commission which deems a project a success only when the full budget has been
The Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has spoken out against plans to tie future governments to spending commitments on foreign aid. The Tory grandee said proposals to make all future administrations ‘gold plate’ Britain’s annual foreign aid budget would not help