Boris Johnson opens foreign aid debate as Tory rebels fear they may lack numbers to block cut – live

Keir Starmer says PM’s aid proposal ‘typically slippery’; vote expected at about 4.30pm

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1.13pm BST

Sir Edward Leigh (Con) intervenes to tell Starmer that the UK never reached the 0.7% aid target when Labour was in power.

Starmer says aid spending more than doubled when Labour was in office.

1.12pm BST

Mark Harper, a former Tory chief whip, asks Starmer what taxes he would raise, or spending cut, to meet the 0.7% target. If he won’t say, people will not believe him, he says.

Starmer says it is a bit rich for Harper to say that when he is voting to break a manifesto promise.

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