Priti Patel's brazen anti-aid agenda is ultimately all about Brexit

Patel, you might think, given the nature of her departure, might not be best thought of as a star turn on the future of British aid, unless you are, of course – like her hosts the TaxPayers’ Alliance – essentially ill-informed and hostile to the idea of international development as most understand it. In endorsing the pressure group’s new report, which calls for a shift in priorities in British aid, what Patel actually exposed was their profound shared misunderstanding of how aid works.