The resignation of Anneliese Dodds, the International Development Minister, over cuts to the aid budget is a shock on many levels. After all, it is almost unheard of for a senior politician in office to quit because of some political belief or principle. Dodds deserves praise for sticking up for her values, even – and most importantly – at the cost of her political career

Dodds decided she had to go in the wake of Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the international aid budget by almost half to pay for an increase in defence funding.