cutting the budget back to .5%. 22 you reassured by the? know. our analysis suggests that the measures the government says introduced, the text if you will will only have been met once in the last 20 years. this may well have been called a road map but it s a road map with lots of checkpoints, lots of detours. that might mean it will take years for aid to be back at the levels we are expecting in the world was expecting. it comes back to the timing, just at the moment will be seen this great reversal in poverty in a rise in hunger. the poorest people in the world can t afford to wait for those checks, for the budget numbers to climb back up. thank you very much. doctors leaders have criticised the government s decision to relax covid restrictions in england next week calling the move irresponsible . it comes as groups representing bus, coach, and rail companies have said that face coverings will not be made compulsory for passengers in england when the rules
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amount is about the same that the 25 poorest countries are spending on their combined health budgets at this moment. when health interventions are so critical. it s the timing of this decision and the scale of it compared to the scale of other interventions the government is making that is really devastating. is making that is really devastating. is making that is really devastatina. ., ., is making that is really devastatina. ., m ., , ., ., ., devastating. you make a strong moral arr ument devastating. you make a strong moral argument for devastating. you make a strong moral argument for it devastating. you make a strong moral argument for it but devastating. you make a strong moral argument for it but then devastating. you make a strong moral argument for it but then ministers - argument for it but then ministers would say, what about the economic argument and the money that s needed for the nhs, schools and policing given the vast spending that has had to be done because of
to 0.5% of national income. i m joined now by melissa leach, director of the institute of development studies. good afternoon. i wonder if you could put this into some sort of context for us. because the uk was a leader in terms of giving money in terms of foreign aid. where does this leave it now? terms of foreign aid. where does this leave it now? absolutely. well, this leave it now? absolutely. well, this is incredibly this leave it now? absolutely. well, this is incredibly disappointing - this is incredibly disappointing news because this reduction now means more than £4 billion wiped off the a budget forjust this year alone and that is going to have a devastating long term impact, the decision that we had today that that is not going to be reversed for millions of the poorest people in the world. the uk is actually this year the only g7 country cutting. we have been a leader but the us, france and germany are increasing eight this year in the context of a global pandemic and o