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MPs fail to force vote on overseas aid budget cuts

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Backbench MPs have failed in their attempt to force a vote on the government's plan to cut the international aid budget.

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But although he ruled the rebel amendment out of order, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle demanded the government should allow the House of Commons a vote on whether aid spending should be allowed to go below the legally defined level of 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product.

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