‘Conversation on future of aid long overdue’: UK looks to lead response to swingeing US cuts

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The huge US-led cuts to international aid programmes and to the UN budget has prompted the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to propose a global conference as part of what he described as “a long overdue conversation about the future architecture of aid”. UK Foreign Office officials said the conference was likely to be in the early autumn, and reflected a UK view that since aid cuts were not reversible in the foreseeable future, a discussion about priorities was required. “I want to have a conference that brings together the western community on development and aid, and how we spend...