by Bethany Rielly

MILLIONS of Yemenis will starve to death if British aid to their country is slashed by up to 50 per cent, a former Conservative minister warned today. 

Last year, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans to cut the overseas aid budget from 0.7 per cent of GDP to 0.5 per cent, which diplomats warned would translate into a 50 to 70 per cent reduction in funding for the world’s poorest nations. 

Former international secretary Andrew Mitchell said today that cuts to the effect of 50 per cent to Yemen “would be very serious indeed.”