Ruth Davidson has warned Boris Johnson he risks taking the Tories back to being seen as the ‘nasty party’ unless he reverses cuts to foreign aid spending.
The former leader of the Scottish Conservatives said it was ‘clear’ that MPs and peers do not support cutting £4billion from the overseas development budget this year.
She urged the Prime Minister to hold a vote in Parliament before the summer on the change, which is a breach of the party’s 2019 general election manifesto.
‘It really does risk us being transported back to being thought of as the “nasty party” in people’s minds once again,’ she said.
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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab made a whirlwind trip last week to Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore – three key nations that figure prominently in the UK’s post-Brexit trade calculations. Raab boasted the Cambodia visit was the first to the country by a British foreign secretary in three decades, but the major theme across each country was trade and deepening bilateral cooperation. Raab had also visited Kuala Lumpur last year to promote the Johnson government’s “Global Britain” strategy, but his latest trip to Southeast Asia coincided with a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown in Malaysia.
The United Kingdom has already expressed its willingness to play a bigger role in the Indo-Pacific.