EXC: New Aid Minister Said Failing to Increase Aid Spending Causes “Deaths By Choice”
The Foreign Office’s new aid minister said that cutting aid makes politicians responsible for death. This can only go one way… Kirsty McNeil, who was moved to the FCDO from the Scotland Office in the Burnham reshuffle, is now the Minister of State responsible for aid. Prior to her election in 2024 she spent nine years at Save the Children as Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns.
- ▪The Foreign Office’s new aid minister said that cutting aid makes politicians responsible for death.
- ▪This can only go one way… Kirsty McNeil, who was moved to the FCDO from the Scotland Office in the Burnham reshuffle, is now the Minister of State responsible for aid.
- ▪Prior to her election in 2024 she spent nine years at Save the Children as Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns.
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The Foreign Office’s new aid minister said that cutting aid makes politicians responsible for death. This can only go one way… Kirsty McNeil, who was moved to the FCDO from the Scotland Office in the Burnham reshuffle, is now the Minister of State responsible for aid. Prior to her election in 2024 she spent nine years at Save the Children as Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns. This is the charity, led by an ex-Department for International Development director general Moazim Malit, which weeks ago accused Starmer of being complicit in the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza… Writing in the New Statesman in 2022 McNeil, also an ex-aide to Gordon Brown, said that if British politicians don’t increase aid “they will be responsible, directly or indirectly, for the…
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