Bono and Bob Geldof laud Queen's speech commitment to global poverty relief

Campaigning singers praise the government's promise to enshrine its international development spending in lawHe may have been showered with accusations of electioneering from opposition parties and a mixed bag of reactions from the unions, but Gordon Brown managed to get the thumbs up from Bono and Bob Geldof for including a "wonderful thing" in his last batch of bills before the general election – the enshrinement in law of a funding promise to the world's poorest people.International ai...

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