A people facing famine, children dying in their thousands, disease spreading, homes destroyed, a desperate lack of humanitarian support.

Wherever this was happening in the world, we would normally expect the UK Government to express its deep concern and pledge millions of pounds in emergency aid to ease extreme suffering.  Even against a background of a collapse in overseas humanitarian aid under the Tories, it’s what Ministers have done in response to crises from the Rohingya people driven out of Myanmar and to famine conditions in the Horn of Africa.