Author: David Taylor
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Conference Events on International Development & Climate Change
Going to Conference? We’ve helpfully put together a list of all the international development and climate change related fringe events taking place. You can view it in a spreadsheet here. LCID is pleased to have been invited to chair Christian Aid‘s fringe event: Beyond Aid – what role for tax in international development. Details: Date:…
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LCID Update: Conference, the leadership contest…and tea with Andrew Mitchell
Dear friends, We hope you are well. Firstly, we know that many people have recently signed up to this mailing list, welcome and thank you! Since the election, LCID has been active in ensuring that international development is on the agenda during the Labour leadership contest, and doing what we can to hold the Coalition…
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Audioboo of the Labour in the World Hustings
LCID reviews the Labour in the World leadership hustings in this Audiboo – click on the icon to listen (and thanks to Young Fabians for the photos):
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Serious questions raised about aid commitment as Clegg fails to confirm policy
Despite repeated questioning on the Andrew Marr show today (BBC 1, Sunday 19 September 2010) Nick Clegg failed to confirm whether the government would meet the 0.7% overseas aid target from 2013, despite having previously promised to do so, sending out worrying signals just days before he attends a critical UN summit on global poverty.…
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Leadership candidates back the Robin Hood Tax
The Labour Campaign for International Development has supported the Robin Hood Tax campaign for a financial transactions tax from the start. We asked all five leadership candidates their opinion on the Robin Hood Tax when we interviewed them recently. You can watch their answers below, and see all five interviews in full here. To keep…
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Watch: LCID Interviews Ed Miliband
Today is the last day in our series of Labour Leadership videos. Each of the candidates has answered your questions on camera. Today hear from Ed Miliband, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change. What do you think about his answers? What else would you ask the Labour Leadership candidates? If you’ve still…
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Watch: Andy Burnham interviewed by LCID
Every day this week, we’re showing you the answers that the Labour Leadership candidates gave to your questions. Today hear from Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary. What do you think about his answers? What else would you ask him? Let us know by posting your comments. Every day this week, we’ll be adding a video…
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Gareth Thomas MP condems Tory cuts on Left Foot Forward
Abandoning UN commitments will compound Pakistan floods disaster and others by Gareth Thomas MP, shadow minister for international development. First posted on Left Foot Forward UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, returning from viewing the devastation in Pakistan for himself today has told the world to ‘wake up’ to the full scale of the disaster, now affecting an…
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Mitchell praises UN relief fund in public, whilst cutting it in private
Earlier today, Andrew Mitchell was on Radio 4 answering questions on the Government’s response to the Pakistan floods. Astonishingly, he actually referenced the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund in his answers – despite the fund being amongst the 100 commitments he has reportedly agreed to drop: “….Well the particular fund is a standing fund that…
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Where is the coalition’s leadership, vision and ambition on aid?
by David Taylor, for Left Foot Forward Yesterday The Observer reported that it had received an email confirming that only eight of Labour’s 100 commitments are to be saved. They come as part of the Tories’ drive for ‘value for money’ for UK aid, something we at Left Foot Forward have consistently argued is a…
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