Chancellor responds to refugee crisis with plan to spend international aid on living costs of Syrians in Britain
Up to £1bn of Britain’s abroad aid budget is to be spent over the course of this parliament protecting the “national interest” by tackling the consequences of failed states such as Syria,George Osborne has proposed.
As David Cameron prepares to brief MPs on his plans to confess thousands of additional Syrian refugees, the chancellor said the government is to respond to the “sheer horror” of the crisis by embarking on a fundamental rethink of the aid budget.
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Source: theguardian.com