By closing DfiD during a pandemic, Boris Johnson will immeasurably damage the UK’s influence and reputation, says Clare Short, ex-secretary of state for the Department for International Development
In the middle of a global pandemic, which has to be squeezed down in every country to prevent it returning in wave after wave, Boris Johnson has announced that he will close the Department for International Development . He called it a merger but made it absolutely clear that the foreign secretary would be in charge.
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