Anneliese Dodds resigned as International Development Minister, citing her disagreement with Sir Keir Starmer over cuts to international aid to fund increased defense spending. During her interview with BBC Radio Oxford, she emphasized the negative impact of these cuts at a time when global aid budgets were already shrinking. She suggested that alternative funding sources for defense spending should have been explored. Dodds, who represents Oxford East, also expressed her intention to focus on local issues in her current role outside the government.
I fundamentally disagreed with the decision to fund the necessary increase we have to see in defence spending all from the international development budget.
I think that it should have been a situation where we were looking at other sources of funding and really grappling with some of the big questions that are facing the country now.
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