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take us through all of that. yes, so the government has a legal commitment to spend 0.7% of the country s national income on international aid. except they are not doing that at the moment, they say, because of the economic consequences of the pandemic. that has enraged some backbench mps, including quite a few conservatives, including quite a few former conservative cabinet ministers. what they have done is they have tabled an amendment to some legislation that is coming to the house of commons on monday, which is actually setting up the government s new science research agency called rea. but these campaigning mps want to put in some clause into that legislation that would use that agency s budget to make up the shortfall in the international aid budget, and those rebels are claiming they have potentially got enough support to defeat the government if this goes to a vote on monday. what is happening at the moment is government officials are looking to see whether this amendment

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