Andrew Mitchell warns of anger as UK aid cut hits starving Yemen

Britain is “complicit” in the suffering in Yemen and millions will starve to death if government aid is halved, a former minister said.

The United Nations said that the war-torn country faced the world’s worst famine in decades without billions of pounds in external help.

Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative former international development minister, joined an outcry over reports that Britain was poised to cut its annual aid to Yemen from £187 million to £90 million during a donors’ conference.

Save the Children warned of “tragic consequences” if the cut went ahead. “We are beyond dismayed by reports that the government intends to cut aid to Yemen by a staggering 50 percent,” Kevin Watkins, the charity’s chief executive, said. “To slash food and medicine to