British minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned as international development minister and minister for women following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to increase defense spending by cutting the foreign aid budget. Dodds expressed her disagreement with the decision, stating that the scale of the cut would harm the UK's reputation and remove food and healthcare from desperate people. The increase in defense spending has faced criticism from aid agencies, who argue that it harms the world's poorest and reduces Britain's soft power.