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…
Asked by Lobby hacks about his past comments on Trump (“any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now”) Burnham was blithe:
“Politicians say things throughout their career, but now the important thing is to focus on the moment you are in.”
Were it so easy…