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How much trouble is the government in over foreign aid?

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After the government cut the UK’s foreign aid budget a group of rebellious tory MPs bound together to try and reverse the decision, will it come to a head this week?

‘This cut has caused some resentment amongst other nations’
– Isabel Hardman

And has the culture war spread to cricket after the suspension of Ollie Robinson for decade old racist remarks?

‘I think there is a broader question in society about how do we allow people to make up for youthful errors?’
– James Forsyth

And with Portugal moving to the amber list, just how limited will the options be for our summer holidays?

‘The government now, it’s aim is to protect the domestic reopening on June 21st’
– James Forsyth

Cindy Yu talks with James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

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