Fury erupts over US foreign aid funding legal advice in UK for transgender asylum seekers

US foreign aid funded legal advice for transgender asylum seekers and other diversity initiatives in Britain, it has been revealed.

’s administration donated at least $120,000 – almost £100,000 – to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and LGBT schemes across the UK.

They included Pride-themed concerts and a book festival interview series on “gender identity and inequality”.

has begun disbanding the US international development agency USAid, claiming US taxpayers were funding “radical” Left-wing initiatives around the world.

accused Mr Biden of pushing a “massive societal and political interference” programme in Britain and heralded the return of “common sense” under Mr Trump.

Virtually all the aid to Left-wing British organisations identified by The Telegraph came from the US State Department, as opposed to USAid.

In Oct 2022, the department approved funding of $25,000 to Rainbow Migration, a company that provides legal advice to “LGBTQI+ people” attempting to claim asylum in the UK.

The same year, it signed a deal with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to provide $40,000 for a series of interviews “engaging with social issues around gender identity and inequality, racial equity, and diversity”.

It also approved $35,000 for a university in Ohio to create a series of exhibitions around the UK about “LGBTQ+ stories” during the -19 pandemic.

In June 2024, as part of its diplomacy programme, the state department allocated $20,000 to “Classical Pride”, a concert series across London.

Mr Farage said he was relieved Mr Trump had replaced Mr Biden because “US taxpayer money will no longer poison British society”.

The Reform UK leader, a friend of Mr Trump, said the series of US government-approved programmes had been motivated by a “Leftist, globalist, woke agenda to completely transform the Western world, to break down all the institutions that we believe in”.

He added: “This is massive societal and political interference that has been coming from America. And Trump’s going to kill it… we’re getting back to good, basic, sound principles.”

Mr Trump’s efforts to disband USAid, the world’s largest single aid donor, were placed on hold on Friday owing to a legal challenge.