The rebellion is being led by former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, who has submitted a proposal to the House of Commons to bring the Executive’s resolution to a vote next week.
According to Mitchell, his proposal has the support of 14 other Conservative MPs, including several former ministers and leaders of influential parliamentary committees.
The British government announced last November that it would reduce the amount of its development aid by about five billion dollars due to the economic impact of Covid-19.
The Finance Minister, Rishi Sunak, while presenting the draft budget to Parliament for this fiscal year, clarified that instead of the equivalent of 0.7 per cent of GDP determined by law, the UK will contribute in 2021 by 0.5 per cent. Although promising to return to the previous figure as soon as conditions permit.
NGOs, charities and religious leaders such as the Archbishop of Canterbury and lawmakers from various parties believe, however, that cutting aid will contribute to exacerbating the hardships suffered by millions of people in poor countries, and increase terrorism, immigration and terrorism. refugee problem.
And although the British government has not yet published a list of affected countries and institutions, some local media say that Syria, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Nigeria and Lebanon will lose more than half of their development funding.
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