Priti Patel joins calls for radical shake-up of aid budget rules

Suggestions include tighter spending controls and for UK to decide what constitutes aid

The former international development secretary Priti Patel has joined calls for a radical shake-up of the aid budget rules, in a further sign that overseas funding could be a key issue in any post-Brexit Tory leadership race.

She follows the former foreign secretary Boris Johnson in making calls for broadening the definition of British overseas aid.

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