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Let voters decide aid projects, say Tories

Posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 and is filed under New York Times, Politics, The White House. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The people are to be given a direct say in how Britain’s aid budget is spent under a Tory government as part of an “X-Factor-style” competition allowing them to vote for their favourite overseas project. Aid experts accused the party of “populist gimmickry” over the policy last night, raising concerns that it would lead to some projects having their funding withdrawn, and discriminate against projects championed by smaller aid groups. The new initiative will be unveiled by David Cameron today as part of the launch of the party’s aid policy. Though an initial £40m will be placed in the “My…

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