Foreign donors spend too much of their aid to Iraq outside the country and ordinary Iraqis do not feel they are being helped by the international community, the country?s new minister of planning has told the Financial Times.

Ali Baban said he would push for a comprehensive review of the way aid to Iraq was being spent. He also warned against pressure from the likes of the International Monetary Fund on his country to scrap subsidies on oil products and food, which currently run at $8bn (?6bn, ?4bn) annually.