LABOUR last night called for the UK’s £13 billion overseas aid budget to be handed to left-wing grassroots groups tackling the “global elite”.

Unveiling plans for a radical shake up of development, Labour demanded that a fortune be handed to activists promoting “alternative economic models”.

2 Labour called for the UK's £13billion aid budget to be handed to left-wing grassroots groups taking on the 'global elite' Credit: PA:Press Association

And it would also commit to transfer power away from the aid industry and back into the “hands of people and communities”.

Labour would stick by the Government’s target of spending 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.

But the cash would go to reducing inequality, promoting feminism and “taking bold action on the global economy rigged in favour of elites.”

Jeremy Corbyn said: “International development budgets can do more than just reduce the worst symptoms of an unfair world.

2 Jeremy Corbyn said that international development budgets can do more than 'just reduce the symptoms of an unfair world' Credit: EPA

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“We don’t have to accept the world that global elites are building for us.

“Let’s help people around the world be more powerful and make their societies fairer - and in the process make our planet more safe, more just and more sustainable.”