27 Apr 2021
Microsoft founder Bill Gates called on the British government to restore its foreign aid budget on Sunday, saying that it is of “critical importance” that the British taxpayer ship money to foreign countries.
Speaking to the
Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, the billionaire philanthropist called on the UK government to ramp back up foreign aid spending and to address the “not fair” situation where younger people in richer nations are getting corona vaccines before older people in poorer nations.
In November, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that the government enact a modest and indeed temporarily reduction in foreign subsidies, taking spending on the aid budget from 0.7 per cent of GDP to 0.5 per cent, representing a £5 billion cut.
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