I am aware that there is a significant number of people in that category, and I pay tribute to what many of them do through their private charity in choosing to give their own money to charitable causes, whether here or overseas. But that is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about taking away money from our constituents under threat of law and forcibly transferring it overseas. I say again that reputable polling on what our constituents believe shows that two thirds of them want to reduce overseas aid and only 7% fall into the category that contains almost everyone in this Chamber, who want it to increase.
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Reckless
(UK Independence Party)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 5 December 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill.
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