{"id":72736,"date":"2025-02-28T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72736"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:40:15","slug":"minister-anneliese-dodds-resigns-over-starmer-move-to-cut-foreign-aid-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/minister-anneliese-dodds-resigns-over-starmer-move-to-cut-foreign-aid-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Anneliese Dodds resigns over Starmer move to cut foreign aid budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zRh2t.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=1918&amp;y=319&amp;s=394&amp;d=394\" alt=\"Foreign Office minister Anneliese Dodds (Jordan Pettitt\/PA) (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The minister, who attended cabinet, warned the move would bolster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Russia<\/a>, despite the prime minister\u2019s claims the cash\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/starmer-trump-defence-spend-meet-b2704255.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">would be used to hike defence spending a<\/a>nd hit back at \u201ctyrants\u201d like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Putin<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/minister-anneliese-dodds-resigns-over-starmer-move-to-cut-foreign-aid-budget\/ar-AA1zYTwM?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=dbb34a4f9dba4048aaa53e30f81f11f1&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The minister, who attended cabinet, warned the move would bolster\u00a0Russia, despite the prime minister\u2019s claims the cash\u00a0would be used to hike defence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/uk_aid_logo.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72738,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions\/72738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}