Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate | Larry Elliott

This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governmentsAsk any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get short shrift. Most would wax lyrical about their school days and the teachers who taught and inspired them.Yet the government of which those women make up almost half the total number of MPs is now targeting spending on “education and gender” for cuts in the overseas aid budget. It is beyond depressing.Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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