Ministers will only commit to providing at least £87million this year – down from £214million last year.
Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, a former international development secretary, said the unimaginable move would condemn hundreds of thousands of children to starvation .
More than six years of war have seen the impoverished nation descend into what the UN describes as the world s largest humanitarian crisis.
But a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that the UK remained one of the biggest donors of lifesaving aid to the country.
Britain is drastically cutting its aid contribution to war-torn Yemen, it was announced yesterday. Pictured: Displaced Yemenis sit near their huts at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons
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Twenty-two aid groups working in Yemen urged US President Joe Biden on Sunday to remove the war-torn country's Huthi rebels from a terror blacklist, saying it could put millions of lives at risk. The Trump administration's move against the insurgents had come into effect the day before Biden took office, to resounding criticism from experts, the United Nations and aid groups. "This designation comes at a time when famine is a very real threat to.