Anneliese Dodds is in Cairo today to kick off a three-day trip to the Middle East focussed on Gaza. With millions in taxpayer cash to hand over…
£6 million each is going to the UN’s World Food Programme and Office for Coordinated Humanitarian Affairs while Dodds says the FCDO will hand £7 million directly to the UN’s scandal-ridden Palestine relief agency UNRWA. That figure alone is 875% of the “landmark” amount given to Baghdad last week which will apparently deal with small boats…
The Tories suspended taxpayer funding to UNRWA back in January after 12 employees were accused of participating in the October 7th attacks. The UN then fired nine staff who were “likely or highly likely” to have been part of the attacks, a month after Lammy restarted UK funding in July. £7 million can buy a fair few passports…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”