Labour MPs call for Andy Burnham to restore aid spending target set by Brown

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Thinktank urges prospective prime minister to reclaim UK’s role as an international leader on development

Influential backbenchers are calling on Andy Burnham to reclaim Labour’s leadership on international development and chart a course back to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid.

In a collection of essays to be published soon by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) thinktank, MPs lay out proposals for a Burnham-led government to rethink foreign policy.

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