Post-Brexit Britain: Development Superpower and Balancing Act

post-brexit britain: This balancing act will be tested soon after he moves into No 10, according to The Guardian. How will he ensure the UK, which has the third largest aid budget in the world, retains its reputation as a development superpower in the words of former international development secretary Penny Mordaunt, with the competing trade, diplomacy and defence requirements of post-Brexit Britain The UK's 38bn defence budget is just 2.5 times greater than the 14bn aid budget. The Tory party has the best instincts to balance these desires, he said. After leaving his job as foreign secretary, Johnson spelled out his thinking over foreign aid, telling the Financial Times that if Global Britain is going to achieve its full and massive potential then we must bring back the Department for International Development DfID to the Foreign Office. Writing the foreword of a report by Bob Seely, Tory member of the foreign affairs select committee, and James Rogers, a strategist at the Henry Jackson Society thinktank, he suggested aid should do more to serve the political and commercial interests of Britain. We can't keep spending huge sums of British taxpayers' money as though we were some independent Scandinavian NGO. In February, he went further. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.