LABOUR will reveal today its new plan to straighten out the Tories’ “incoherent” international development policy that currently favours privatisation overseas.
In Parliament, shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor will announce that Labour in power will put an end to the Tories’ promotion of privatisation of public services abroad so that foreign aid “explicitly reduces poverty for the first time.”
This would be through ending schemes such as private finance initiatives (PFI) for healthcare and fee-paying schools such as the controversial Bridge International Academy, whose schools have been forced to shut down in Kenya.
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