UK’s New Aid Strategy Seeks to ‘Challenge Dependency on Malign Actors’

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks to media during bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting at the Weissenhaus Grand Village Resort near Oldenburg in Holstein, Germany, on May 13, 2022. Georg Wendt - Pool/Getty Images

The UK will use international aid to “challenge dependency on malign actors” and “offer honest alternative for low- and middle-income countries,” the Foreign Office has said.

Announcing the new International Development Strategy on May 16, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK must use international aid to achieve its foreign policy goals and counter “malign actors.”