Johnson Wins U.K. Parliament Backing for Cut to Overseas Aid
- Defeats Conservative rebels including ex-leader Theresa May
- Chancellor says result will help to repair public finances
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated a Conservative Party rebellion over cuts to foreign aid, averting a potentially damaging threat to his authority that would have undermined his government’s plans to rein in a peacetime record budget deficit.
Rebels including former Prime Minister Theresa May and former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell had sought to overturn Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s cut to overseas aid spending to 0.5% of gross national income from 0.7%.