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Carey Mulligan tells Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis it's "devastating" the UK government is delaying paying its promised aid funding. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

An international charity working to prevent children being trafficked from Afghanistan says a delay to promised UK government funding is "devastating".

The government had agreed to pay War Child £500,000 from July this year in a much-publicised donation match scheme.

But they now say they will not pay out the money until April 2022.

Actress Carey Mulligan, a patron of War Child, said the "damaging decision" needed reversing - but the government said it had to take "tough" decisions.

Newsnight’s Political Editor Nick Watt reports and Emily Maitlis is joined by Carey Mulligan.

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