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What if foreign aid lowers the number of people entering Britain some of whom will commit crime because their home nation is now viable to remain in? That will reduce load on health, policing and the like.

And we should never abandon helping those around the world where we can. I read some figures some years back showing that the UK foreign aid was one of the lowest if comparable countries but that our charitable giving to the same was one of the highest. As already mentioned the relative amounts for foreign aid is tiny to the resources spent and required nationally. We need to curb wastage more than cutting aid.