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  from the guardian.
  
  
  David Cameron has made a scathing attack on his fellow leaders over aid to Africa at the end of their G8 summit, saying they were seen by the public as a bunch of men in suits, more interested in a good lunch than keeping their promises to the world's poorest.
  
  He also issued a broadside against readers of the Daily Mail, reminding them that Britain's aid budget was intended to save the lives of women in childbirth and to spare people in Africa from malaria.
  
  In a polemic issued midway through his G8 press conference at Deauville in France, he even argued it would have been better for Afghanistan if a fraction of the money now spent there by the UK military had earlier instead been spent on aid.
  
  His emotional defence of his spending priorities was made in response to a Daily Mail article which had claimed that a report showing Britain spends more on aid than its G8 partners, was damning.
  
  The prime minister has been under growing pressure from Conservative backbenchers, as well as the defence secretary, Liam Fox, to reduce the growing aid budget in the face of the recession, but clearly believes he will not shift on his promise to raise it to reach the target of 0.7% of British GDP by 2015

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