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The truth about where Britain's £15billion-a-year foreign aid funding REALLY goes

31/03/25 00:28

The mind-boggling magnitude of Britain's 'wasted' foreign aid spending is today laid bare in extraordinary detail. Almost £14billion of taxpayer cash will be funnelled across the world this year, with China, Palestine, Afghanistan and other adversarial states in line for millions in handouts. Funds will even be directed to countries wealthier than three quarters of boroughs within the UK, MailOnline's DEEP DIVE unit can reveal. Armed with our dossier of waste, experts and MPs across the political spectrum have demanded ministers immediately reassess how foreign aid funding is spent. Ministers are under pressure to create a UK equivalent of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to gut unnecessary expenditure. Lee Anderson, Reform MP, told MailOnline: 'Every year, billions of taxpayers' money is wasted by being sent to governments around the globe.'...read

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