Month: June 2012
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Glenys Kinnock: Aung San Suu Kyi needs our active solidarity
by Baroness Glenys Kinnock, LCID Honorary Co-President Aung San Suu Kyi has courageously and selflessly served the cause of democracy and human rights in Burma. And, for this, she has rightly been held up as an international symbol of peaceful resistance against one of the most oppressive and secretive regimes in the World. She is extraordinarily tenacious…
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A Change of Approach – Where Labour can thrive and improve support for aid
by Ali Louis This week the IPPR and ODI will published their anticipated report Understanding Public Attitudes to Aid and Development. Whilst there have been opinions polls on aid, this report attempts to gauge why public perceptions have been formed. Positive public attitudes to aid are crucial if we are to maintain our commitment to…
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Sheila Gilmore MP: Osborne’s corporate tax concessions could cost developing countries billions
by Sheila Gilmore, Labour MP for Edinburgh East Since April I’ve been sitting on the committee of MPs scrutinising the Finance Bill – the annual legislation that puts into effect announcements in the budget. The bill covers big issues such as the scrapping of the 50p tax and introduction of the granny tax. One of…
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Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as ‘showing leadership’
A Tory minister has issued a stern memorandum to his staff banning them from using jargon words such as “showing leadership”, “abolishing user fees” and “reducing poverty.” Describing himself as a “grammar fascist ideologue”, Alan Duncan MP has issued a memo accusing staff at the Department for International Development of damaging Britain’s worldwide reputation by pushing…
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Rio+20: Viewpoints from the Labour movement
Our friends SERA, the Labour’s Environment Campaign, have this week launched a new pamphlet, Rio+20: Our second chance for a sustainable future?, as their contribution to the debate at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in Brazil. The pamphlet includes contributions from Mary Creagh (Shadow Environment Secretary), Caroline Flint (Shadow Energy Secretary), Ivan Lewis (Shadow International…
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The left must build a coalition of the willing at the G20 in order to boost global recovery
First published on Left Foot Forward Whilst the Seoul and Cannes Summits were positive steps forward for development, next to nothing has been achieved by the G20 in Los Cabos in Mexico. Crucially, world leaders have yet again failed to agree a global plan for jobs and growth needed to drag the world out of…
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Mark Hendrick MP: The people snared in poverty’s grip can’t afford inaction
Labour & Co-operative MP Mark Hendrick explains why he has put forward a private members’ bill to enshrine 0.7% of GNI to international aid in law, a key aim of the international development and co-operative movements. The world is in a state of constant change; reshaping economies, new governments forming but the one constant, the…
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Once again it falls to Labour to provide leadership – Labour to table Private Member’s Bill on 0.7%
With Cameron and Mitchell delaying legislation to enshrine the 0.7% aid target yet again – this time by three more years – it has once again fallen to Labour to provide leadership. The Coalition ‘Programme for Government’ agreed in 2010 that it would match Labour’s pledge to pass legislation committing the UK to spending 0.7 per…
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LCID Members Reception
Thank you to everyone who attended our reception in Parliament on Wednesday for our Founding Members. Ivan Lewis and LCID Honorary Co-Presidents Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock addressed a packed room of over 100 people. Ivan spoke of the need for a new progressive covenant on development to take us beyond the MDGs…
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Reminder: Members Reception tomorrow (+ directions)
Just a final reminder that tomorrow Wednesday 13 June we will be holding our reception for the Founding Members of LCID, with Shadow Secretary State Ivan Lewis MP and our Honorary Co-Presidents Rachel Reeves MP and Baroness Glenys Kinnock. The reception will start promptly at 18.30, please allow 15 minutes to get through security. Please arrive at the Cromwell Green…
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