Labour would use foreign aid cash to fight ‘global elites’

LABOUR will today announce plans to use the foreign aid budget, should it win power, to spread Jeremy Corbyn’s Left-wing ideals by toppling “global elites” and “redistributing power” to the masses. The Labour leader wants to use Britain’s £13 billion foreign aid budget to sponsor activists abroad who are agitating for “progressive” political change in their countries.

Under the proposals, Labour would also end partnerships with private sector organisations and move away from the Government’s objective of spending aid in the “national interest” to focus on eradicating poverty abroad. The paper, entitled “A world for the many not the few”, adds that Labour would triple the amount of aid going to feminist groups in order to tackle the “entrenched patriarchy”.

In a foreword to the proposals, Mr Corbyn writes: “[The Conservatives] won’t challenge the rigged system that has created global crisis because they are at the heart of that system. They reduce aid to a matter of charity. What is missing is political will. What is missing in the UK is a government prepared to take on vested interests, and represent the many, not the few.

“International development budgets can do more than just reduce the worst symptoms of an unfair world. We don’t have to accept the world that global elites are building for us.”

Among the 34 proposals contained in the report, Labour also plans to scrap all private partnerships currently operated by the Department for International Development, and will resist the privatisation of public services.

The development secretary would also be given a say in the sale of arms to countries such as Saudi Arabia, with contracts which threaten development work blocked or discontinued.