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Boris Johnson’s resignation statement – what he really meant
As ever with the former PM there was plenty of barely hidden subtext as he took aim at perceived enemies

Peter Walker Deputy political editor
Sat 10 Jun 2023 10.43 BST

Boris Johnson’s statement announcing he will quit the Commons is not brief – more than 1,000 words – and, as ever with the former prime minister’s pronouncements, there is a lot of often barely hidden subtext:

I have received a letter from the privileges committee making it clear – much to my amazement – that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament.

They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.

This is Johnson trying to preshape opinion about the privileges committee report into whether he lied to MPs about lockdown-breaking parties, which he has seen but is not yet public. This is the statement’s key message: whatever the evidence, Johnson and his allies will always insist he was wronged.




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‘Party’s over, Boris’: what the UK papers say about Johnson’s Partygate resignation
Some newspapers focus on former PM’s accusations in fiery resignation letter, while others point readers towards damning committee report

Graham Russell
Sat 10 Jun 2023 03.35 BST

Boris Johnson’s departure from life as an MP ahead of the publication of the Partygate report plays out across Saturday’s front pages, which are filled with a mixture of acrimony, triumph and predictions of further “Tory bloodletting”.



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As the Guardian says, a load of Johnson supporters (including MPs) are going full Trump mode: he was forced out as PM! he was forced out as an MP! It's those remainers and lefties going against the will of the voters! It's undemocratic!

But Johnson resigned as PM last year when his cabinet ministers deserted him en masse. They were all members of his party, his supporters. The left had nothing to do with it. And why was he forced out? Not actually because of his lying over the parties in the PM's office during Covid lockdown. No, it was because he lied about an appointment he had made.

And now Johnson resigned as an MP. He wasn't forced out, he resigned of his own free will. Why? Because he is a moral coward. He had the report of the Privileges Committee with its analysis and recommendations, so presumably could see the writing was on the wall. The writing being a recommendation of 10 or more days suspension which allows the voters of his constituency to initiate a recall petition, which, if 10% of them sign, forces a by-election.

Damn lefties? No. The Privileges Committee had 7 members, 4 of them from Johnson's party. So they didn't buy his lies. And the committee only recommends. Their recommendation goes to the full House of Commons to vote on, it's not automatically implemented. So Johnson would be at the mercy of the Commons … where his party has a majority of about 80 seats. So if his party supported him, the suspension would not happen. So Johnson doesn't believe he could win that vote.
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Johnson is taking some folks with him.

A couple have resigned in sympathy trigering by-elections.
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Another bit of Trumpian thinking I see on the Johnson-related Twitter sewer is that "there is no proof". Waaah, you anti-democratic lefties cannot prove that the best Prime Minister evah lied!

Johnson is a known liar, he was sacked from two non-political (journalism) jobs for lying, he was pressured into resigning as PM because he lied, he chose to resign as an MP presumably because he the committee deduced that he had lied. Very, very few people get sacked from jobs for lying even once in their lifetime, but Johnson has managed it several times.

Yet the Johnsonites follow the Trumpian line that no allegation against one of their own is true unless the target of the allegation accepts its validity. So while Johnson/Trump deny, their supporters screech "there's no proof!"

Yet it doesn't work the other way. Any allegation by a right-winger is unassailable, even if evidence-free and firmly contradicted by reality or reliable sources.
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Again from the Twitter sewer, humorous comments on Johnson's legacy (I paraphrase):

But what about Johnson's tremendous legacy? The 40 imaginary hospitals he built! The £350M £0 a week extra for the National Health Service from savings in EU contributions! The frictionless barriers against international trade!

And earlier as Mayor of London: the invisible Garden Bridge over the Thames! The hallucinated airport in the Thames Estuary! The unused, unwanted by the police, later sold at a loss water cannons! The super-expensive red buses with extra rear doors to emulate the classic open-at-the-back buses which can't do that because having a conductor on each bus doubles the staffing costs!

In a full-of-shitness contest between Trump and Johnson, I couldn't say who would win.
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We have yet to see the stash of Top Secret government documents that Johnson took into retirement ;)

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British Security is a little more demanding when they think you have documents you shouldn't have.

Boris either gave them up or we'll never see him again.

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Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless
Downing Street crisis meeting hears that about 8,000 who arrived under Operation Warm Welcome will be evicted this summer with nowhere to go

Mark Townsend and Aaron Walawalkar
Sun 11 Jun 2023 00.01 BST

Thousands of Afghan refugees in the UK face homelessness this summer, the government was warned last week at a secret crisis meeting in Downing Street.

Council officials told No 10 and Home Office civil servants that about 8,000 Afghan refugees, allowed into the country in 2021 under the slogan Operation Warm Welcome, are due to be evicted from hotels as early as August because of a government deadline, yet have nowhere to go.

The emergency meeting, held last Thursday, came hours before the prime minister quietly dropped a controversial plank of last year’s asylum law that had introduced a two-tier refugee system.

Further problems for Rishi Sunak arrive on Sunday when a parliamentary committee will say his illegal migration bill breaches a number of international human rights obligations and would mean that the UK is “turning its back on the vast majority of refugees”.

In a damning report, the joint committee on human rights urges the UK to fulfil its role in the global system of refugee protection and not walk away from its legal obligations to refugees, children and victims of modern slavery.

During Thursday’s meeting, also attended by a number of Home Office private contractors, officials discussed “low-cost” options to move up to 50,000 asylum seekers who are in hotel accommodation. However, it became “quickly evident” that councils would struggle to help because of an acute housing shortage.



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RTH10260 wrote: Thu Jun 08, 2023 2:33 am :o :shock:
Woking council declares bankruptcy with £1.2bn deficit
Previous Tory leadership embarked on risky investment spree involving hotels and skyscrapers
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Woking said that against its available core funding of £16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of £1.2bn.
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How in the H. E. double hockey sticks does one rack up a 1.2 BILLION pound deficit against a 16 MILLION pound budget??? That sounds criminal.
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IIRC they borrowed to invest speculate on property.
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A sad story on the departure of Boris from UK politics ... :liar:

Opinion piece
Sad, confused, deluded: spare a thought for the friends of Boris Johnson at this difficult time
Things may look dark but his acolytes are determined to go down fighting. And, true to type, he is determined to let them

Marina Hyde
Tue 13 Jun 2023 16.22 BST

Can I just check something before we begin, because it feels as though we’re dealing with a weight of irony that defies all known physics? Is Boris Johnson leaving British politics absolutely howling with anger because someone supposedly told him a lie? Is Boris Johnson wetting his pants thrice daily over the injustice of him being supposedly misled? Is Boris Johnson now appalled at someone else’s supposedly casual relationship with the truth? It seems, incredibly, that he is. In which case I honestly don’t think I could take this story more seriously. It’s too perfect. Boris Johnson has been Boris Johnsonned.

To the event horizon of irony, then, and the ongoing row over whether Rishi Sunak did or didn’t tell Johnson he could bend the rules to get peerages for a set of political inadequates completely devoid of ministerial achievements, and notable only for their slavish loyalty to a guy who would have betrayed them in a heartbeat if he thought there was some minuscule, fleeting advantage for himself at that moment. I note there is also some hokey cokey about why Johnson, 58, couldn’t get a knighthood for his daddy (genuinely one of the worst people in the country). But let’s face it: that one can’t even be dignified with discussion.

As for who to believe – Sunak or the leading liar of the age – I think we’ll probably have to give the current prime minister the benefit of the doubt on this one.

But arguably the most unbelievable thing of all is the Johnson allies who are still out there spouting off on how appallingly he’s been treated. Behold, an absolute cavalcade of betas, who spent the nicest weekend of the year so far crying anonymous quotes down the phone about a guy who’d cheerily have sex with their wives while they were out of town doing some boring little job for him that he couldn’t be arsed doing himself. And after reading some of their output over the past few days, I strongly suspect their only reaction to this would be to apologise for not having changed the sheets for him before they set off.

Imagine being a single-issue politician, when that issue is “defending Boris Johnson”. Over the past few days, these Cuck Norrises have served up some of the most eyebrow-raising quotes in recent memory, apparently under the impression that they are helping. Here we go with the first one from a Johnson ally, who’s got an intriguing read on Sunak. “He thinks he’s being very clever when he’s being very stupid,” this ran. “He’s like a shit batsman who completely misreads the delivery.” Yeah but is he? Is he really?



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Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate, MPs find
Cross-party committee says ex-PM would have faced 90-day suspension had he not quit in rage at findings last week

Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent
Thu 15 Jun 2023 09.38 BST

Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate and was part of a campaign to abuse and intimidate MPs investigating him, a long-awaited report by the privileges committee has found.

In an unprecedented move, the cross-party group said he “closed his mind to the truth” and would have faced a 90-day suspension from the Commons had he not quit in rage at its conclusions last week.

Johnson was also found to have knowingly misled the committee itself, breached Commons rules by partially leaking its findings last Friday, and undermined the democratic processes of parliament.



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Privileges committee says Johnson would face 90-day suspension if he were still MP

The committee says, if Boris Johnson were still an MP, it would recommend a suspension for 90 days. It says that last week it was set to recommend a suspension for more than 10 sitting days, enough to trigger the recall election process. But it says it increased the hypothetical punishment in the light of his statement on Friday night, attacking the committee and its draft findings, which itself was “a very serious contempt”.

Johnson is now an ex-MP, and so a suspension punishment can no longer apply. But the committee says Johnson should not be entitled the pass normally given to former MPs allowing them access to parliament.

In its summary the committee says:

The question which the house asked the committee is whether the house had been misled by Mr Johnson and, if so, whether that conduct amounted to contempt. It is for the house to decide whether it agrees with the committee. The house as a whole makes that decision. Motions arising from reports from this committee are debatable and amendable. The committee had provisionally concluded that Mr Johnson deliberately misled the house and should be sanctioned for it by being suspended for a period that would trigger the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015. In light of Mr Johnson’s conduct in committing a further contempt on 9 June 2023, the committee now considers that if Mr Johnson were still a member he should be suspended from the service of the House for 90 days for repeated contempts and for seeking to undermine the parliamentary process, by:

a) Deliberately misleading the house.

b) Deliberately misleading the committee.

c) Breaching confidence.

d) Impugning the committee and thereby undermining the democratic process of the house.

e) Being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee.

We recommend that he should not be entitled to a former member’s pass.

Updated at 09.40 BST



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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Boris Johnson Partygate report findings threaten to further derail Tories
Ex-PM’s allies pledge to target Tory members of committee and MPs who endorse its findings for deselection

Pippa Crerar and Aubrey Allegretti
Thu 15 Jun 2023 19.35 BST

Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate and was part of a campaign to abuse and intimidate MPs investigating him, according to a damning official inquiry that threatens to further tear apart the Conservative party.

The long-awaited report by the privileges committee said the former prime minister would have faced a 90-day suspension from the Commons had he not quit in rage at its conclusions last week.

The original suspension was due to be 20 days but the committee said his attempts to intimidate it would have increased the punishment.

He was also found to have knowingly misled the committee, breached Commons rules by partially leaking its findings last Friday, and undermined the democratic processes of parliament.

As a result, the cross-party committee recommended Johnson be banned from getting the pass granted to former MPs that allows them privileged access to the Westminster estate.

In concluding that Johnson deliberately – and not just recklessly – misled parliament, the committee cited his repeated and continuing denials over his knowledge of rule-breaking Downing Street gatherings as well as the frequency with which he “closed his mind” to the facts.

“The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the prime minister, the most senior member of the government,” it said. “He misled the house on an issue of the greatest importance to the house and to the public, and did so repeatedly.”

Soon after the report was published, Johnson accused the committee, which has a Tory majority and a Labour chair, of trying to “bring about what is intended to be the final knife thrust in a protracted political assassination”. He said its findings were “preposterous” and a sign of “desperation”.




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Children in England’s asylum hotels suffering from malnutrition
Health professionals say some children dangerously thin, with parents reportedly rummaging through bins to find food

Diane Taylor
Sat 17 Jun 2023 06.00 BST

Health professionals have raised concerns about the increasing number of children in asylum seeker hotel accommodation being diagnosed with malnutrition, the Guardian has learned.

Cases of malnutrition among both children and adults have been confirmed in various different areas of England, including hotels in London and in the south-west.

In some areas health professionals have started weighing children at the hotels who have become dangerously thin and in need of frequent monitoring.

Those working with families in hotels reported that some parents have been found rummaging through bins to find food for their children and adults were losing as much as 10-15kg (22-33lbs) of weight.

Rupert Blomfield, manager of Refugee Support Devon, which is providing support to asylum seekers in hotels across the county, said: “Some children are simply not eating. We have had cases of malnutrition confirmed. Some children have been losing weight to quite a dangerous degree.”

One health and social care professional who is also involved with weighing asylum seekers in the Devon area said: “The situation for families is dire and no matter how many times issues are raised with the contractor or the Home Office, nothing changes. The children are losing weight rapidly, going to school and saying they’re starving, eating two portions of lunch. They are saying that they don’t want to return to the hotel which they describe as ‘prison’.




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‘Dangerous precedent’: Tories criticised for £137 fee to report on conference
Accreditation fee for journalists criticised in letter from nearly 300 news organisations worldwide

Ben Quinn Political correspondent
Tue 20 Jun 2023 10.39 BST

The Conservative party has been accused by news organisations from around the world of setting a “dangerous precedent” internationally after it introduced a charge to report on its annual conference.

The criticism came in a letter signed by nearly 300 news organisations, including the Society of Editors, Foreign Press Association (FPA), News Media Association, Reporters Without Borders and the European Association of News Agencies.

“We believe that a fundamental tenet of a free and democratic society is allowing journalists – from all over the world – to freely report on matters of public interest,” it says.

“We have not found any comparable charges in any other country in the world, let alone in any other democracy.”

No other British political party charges for press accreditation, but a fee was introduced last year by the Tories.

The charge of £137 for each journalist’s application is being justified by the party on the basis that it is necessary to address the “tens of thousands of pounds” cost of security checks for people accrediting but not turning up.

The cost of accreditation for the conference, which will be held in Manchester over the course of four days at the start of October, will rise to £880 for journalists who apply after the end of July.

The letter continues: “This decision sets a dangerous precedent for countries all over the world who will use this decision to justify financial and other barriers to media scrutiny of the political process.”

It is signed by media organisations from countries including the US and France, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.




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Sovereingity - but no controls in place :brickwallsmall:
UK supermarket supplier’s chickens given antibiotics critical for humans
Investigation of meat sourced by Polish firm that sells frozen poultry to Lidl, Asda and Iceland raises superbug concerns

Misbah Khan, Andrew Wasley and Agata Skrzypczyk
Tue 20 Jun 2023 13.00 BST

A major supplier of chicken to UK supermarkets is sourcing birds dosed with antibiotics “critical to human health”, according to a new investigation, as concerns grow about the spread of deadly superbugs.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) found that the Polish meat business SuperDrob, which sells frozen poultry products to Lidl, Asda and Iceland, is sourcing chicken from farms that use fluoroquinolone antibiotics, classified as “critically important for human health” by the World Health Organization (WHO). Fluoroquinolones are often used to treat serious salmonella infections in humans.

Giving antibiotics to animals has come under increasing scrutiny, as scientists highlight the risks of potentially lethal bacteria developing antibiotic resistance, meaning drugs may no longer work to treat human infections. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria – known as “superbugs” – are a growing threat to human health, leading to an estimated 1.2 million deaths globally in 2019.

There are growing concerns that farmers giving these critically important antibiotics to their animals may contribute to the problem. To reduce the risk of superbug outbreaks, the EU tightened up laws about the use of antibiotics on farms last year.

Yet it appears that the use of drugs critical for human health on farms in Poland, Europe’s biggest producer of poultry meat, has soared in recent years. Sales of fluoroquinolones have increased by more than 70% in the country. Data shows even larger increases in the sales of colistin, a last-resort drug used to treat serious infections that have not responded to other medicines. The WHO classifies both as critically important for human health.

SuperDrob is one of Poland’s leading poultry producers and more than 50% of its revenue is from exports. Three sources, including a farmer who supplies chicken to SuperDrob and a vet who serves supplying farms, confirmed that fluoroquinolone antibiotics were being used, according to interviews conducted by the BIJ. There is nothing unlawful about this but testing undertaken by the BIJ, overseen by an Oxford University academic, in May discovered bacteria resistant to fluoroquinolones in samples of waste collected from a number of Polish poultry farms that are understood to have supplied SuperDrob.

SuperDrob said the drugs were in use, but that it had firm policies in place to ensure they were only used when justified. It said: “Where there is a veterinary need for medical treatment, then it is used under the supervision of veterinarians.” The company also said it was reducing the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics and would phase them out by 2025.

Tim Walsh, a professor of medical microbiology at Oxford University, said he believed there had been a failure at an EU level to monitor antibiotic use in Poland, and that the country’s soaring sales of high-priority antibiotics should have raised alarm bells.

But the European Commission said that measures taken in Poland since a UK salmonella outbreak in 2020, including improved biosecurity on farms and better hygiene in meat plants, had resulted in a reduction of salmonella contaminations.

Although fluoroquinolone antibiotics are legal to use on chicken farms in the UK and EU under veterinary supervision, their use is now tightly controlled by regulators and they are not allowed to be used preventively on healthy animals. SuperDrob said its policies did not permit the use of antibiotics for prophylactic purposes and such behaviour was also prohibited for SuperDrob’s suppliers.

The Polish chief veterinary inspectorate said the prophylactic – or preventive – use of antibiotics was not common practice in Poland.

In 2020, EU and UK authorities identified SuperDrob meat plants and farms as the main source of the UK salmonella outbreak that infected more than 400 people. The BIJ looked at genetic sequences from bacteria responsible for the outbreak and found that most were resistant to fluoroquinolones and in some instances, samples were also found to be resistant to multiple drugs, making infections even more difficult to treat.



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Battle over Rwanda deportations to continue as No 10 gears up for appeal
Sunak insists Rwanda is safe country to be sent to after court rules in favour of charities and 10 asylum seekers

Ben Quinn, Diane Taylor and Pippa Crerar
Thu 29 Jun 2023 20.15 BST

The bitter legal battle over the government’s flagship immigration policy is set to reach new heights after Downing Street insisted it would fight to overturn a ruling that sending refugees to Rwanda was unlawful.

Charities and others were jubilant on Thursday after judges at the court of appeal ruled in favour of campaign groups and 10 affected asylum seekers, while the opposition claimed the policy at heart of Rishi Sunak’s “Stop the Boats” pledge was now unravelling.

But the prime minister was quick to announce plans to appeal at the supreme court against the decision as he insisted that Rwanda was a safe country for asylum seekers to have their claims processed – and said the court had agreed with this.

The home secretary, Suella Braverman, went further by claiming in the aftermath of the ruling that the “system is rigged against the British people”.

Officials within government are privately even more bullish about its next legal fight, which could pave the way for flights to take off before the general election.

One No 10 source said: “The lawyers have spent all day poring over this and know exactly what they need to prove at the supreme court. They’ve got a good case to make”.

The ruling follows a four-day hearing in April against last year’s high court decision that it was lawful to send some asylum seekers, including people arriving on small boats, to Rwanda to have their claims processed rather than dealing with their applications for sanctuary in the UK.

The court of appeal subsequently ruled on Thursday that deficiencies in the Rwandan asylum system meant there was a real risk that people would be returned to home countries where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment, when in fact they had a good claim for asylum.

Its conclusion was that Rwanda was not a “safe third country” even though assurances by the Rwandan government were provided in good faith.

Government insiders, however, argued that Rwanda did not currently have returns agreements with any of the countries and that the UK had put safeguards in place when it signed a memorandum of understanding with Kigali.



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I think it's about time for someone to set up a head of lettuce for Rishi.

Today he prosed letting unqualified people in Dentists offices for the NHS be allowed to provide some care. I'm not talking Dental Assistants either, this is like the billing clerk who is now the billing clerk/root canal department. All in the desire to cut wait times and costs.

Next he's gonna open up all the internet medical experts, and there are so many since COVID, perform surgery.
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The Orkneys: heading for Norway?

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He suggested another possible future could be like the Faroe Islands - which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.

Councillor Stockan told BBC Radio Scotland there were many areas where Orkney was being "failed dreadfully" by both the UK and Scottish governments.
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British peers attended Russian ambassador’s party in London
Lords Balfe and Skidelsky were at event in June where ambassador sought to justify Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
Sun 2 Jul 2023 16.21 BST

Two British peers were among 50 people who attended a party organised by the Russian ambassador to the UK at his opulent residence in west London last month, to mark the creation of a Russia independent of the Soviet Union.

Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador, spoke at the event where he sought to justify his country’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, while those attending included the Conservative Lord Balfe and cross-bencher Lord Skidelsky.

An account of the event published by the Sunday Times includes photographs of Kelin, who is banned from the UK parliament, addressing an audience of about 50, including Russian embassy staff, foreign diplomats and a number of Britons.

Kelin reportedly said “in order to develop normally, Russia must first deal with significant threats to its security” – a clear reference to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February aimed at overthrowing the elected government of president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The ambassador also accused Britain of making a “big strategic miscalculation” by engaging in a confrontational approach to Moscow.



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Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge
Exclusive: Disclosure provokes fury as Rishi Sunak accused of betraying populations vulnerable to global heating

Helena Horton and Patrick Greenfield
Tue 4 Jul 2023 19.07 BST

The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, with the prime minister accused of betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating.

The disclosure provoked fury from former ministers and representatives of vulnerable countries, who accused Rishi Sunak of making false promises.

A leaked briefing note to ministers, given to the Foreign Office and seen by the Guardian, lays out reasons for dropping the UK’s contribution to meeting the global $100bn (£78.6bn) a year commitment to developing countries.

It says: “Our commitment to double our international climate finance to £11.6bn was made in 2019, when we were still at 0.7 [% of GDP spent on international aid] and pre-Covid.” It adds that to meet it by the deadline would be a “huge challenge” because of new pressures, including help for Ukraine being included in the aid budget.

To meet the £11.6bn target by 2026, government officials have calculated that it would have to spend 83% of the Foreign Office’s official development assistance budget on the international climate fund. Civil servants said in the leaked document that this “would squeeze out room for other commitments such as humanitarian and women and girls”.



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At least they're not as bad as the American Republicans who would have announced the "we can't afford to do this" with "Tax cuts for the rich" in the same week.
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"We cannot do this because we are giving that money to the rich and those causing the problems."
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