MPs berate Government over aid cuts, but still no vote is in prospect Parliament.TV
Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, during an emergency debate on the cut to the international aid budget
Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, during an emergency debate on the cut to the international aid budget
THE Government’s cutting of international aid from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent of national income will cost lives and damage the UK’s standing in the world, the former Prime Minister Theresa May has said.
Mrs May was speaking during an emergency debate in the Commons on Tuesday afternoon, during which more than 30 MPs of all parties spoke all but four of them voicing fierce opposition to the reduction.
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Unfortunately, even less attention has been paid to many of the other members of the Commonwealth, especially those in Africa, the Caribbean and parts of Asia, some of which are now the fastest growing economies in the world.
Should Britain being doing more to help Commonwealth countries with their Covid vaccine programmes?
Despite our clear and historic connection to these Commonwealth countries, our recent EU membership resulted in us being forced into treating them as some sort of pariahs, unable to do trade deals with them because it would have breached EU protectionism rules.
This was never the intention of the UK when we originally joined the European Economic Community (EEC) back in 1973. It was supposed to simply be a trading partnership.
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A haemophiliac and campaigner has said he feels horror thinking he may have passed on hepatitis unwittingly after being turned into potentially a vehicle that could cause death to a whole family .
Bruce Norval was infected with Hepatitis C aged 23 after being treated with contaminated blood products for his bleeding disorder, the Infected Blood Inquiry heard on Wednesday.
The Scots-born former nursing student, now in his mid-50s, criticised the public health response in the late 20th century, saying many medical practitioners viewed Hepatitis B and C as if it s a side-effect in isolation restricted to the patient .
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