UKIP will put Britain’s bloated Foreign Aid budget at the heart of the election today with a pledge to slash it to 0.2 per cent rather than the current 0.7 per cent of government spending.

In a blistering attack on the current International Development spending, the Brexit party will claim Britain “cannot afford to contract out our aid policy to the likes of Bono and Bob Geldof.”

Party chief Paul Nuttall and MEP Patrick O’Flynn will also accuse Tony Blair and David Cameron of heading “a generation of gap year politicians who were more engaged in the fortunes of places they had visited between school and university than in living standards in working class communities in their own country.”

In a speech in Central London today the pair will add: “The greatest joy for such politicians was being namechecked by rock stars and film stars and told how virtuous they were for being so generous with other people’s money.”

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Ukip say their change will save the taxpayer billions and will urge Theresa May to make it Government policy ahead of her expected victory in June’s snap poll.

Mr O’Flynn will accuse “Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems of seeking to disenfranchise the views of the British public by offering only one choice when it comes to aid funding”.

He will add: “Ukip is going to break up that political monopoly and offer a choice to the millions of voters who want to see less spent on aid and more on our key domestic public services.”

Last night the Lib Dems branded the new policy “politics at its least thoughtful.”

MP Tom Brake hit out: “Ukip would cheerfully see a child starve to death if it won them some cheap, snarling clip on the evening news.”

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