August 23, 2012

Foreign Aid Makes UK a Laughingstock

Leo McKinstry, Daily Express

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OF all the Government’s many wasteful spending programmes none is more indulgent or offensive than foreign aid. The budget of the Department for International Development is a vast monument to political vanity.

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