Give Us This Day 0.7%

Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph had a touch of drama about it. The front page headlines said, "British still giving hundreds of millions of pounds in aid to wealthy countries."  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9560326/

Well it caught my attention.  When it came to power in 2011 the coalition government made a historic decision to ring-fence its promise of 0.7% of GDP. For a lot of people the fact that a conservative-led coalition made this kind of commitment is either a minor miracle or a political mystery waiting to be revealed...

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