Exclusive: Priti Patel insists UK's aid influence is 'massive'

Development secretary says she’s fed up with the myth she sits there ‘writing cheques for North Korea’ and announces aid packages for Somalia and EthiopiaBritain’s foreign aid minister, Priti Patel, has told the Guardian she is fed up with the myth that all she does is sit at her desk “writing cheques to North Korea”, in her most robust response yet to critics of the foreign aid budget.On a surprise visit to drought-stricken east Africa on Saturday, Patel, the