Author: lcidblog
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Syrian refugee crisis: Lebanon steps up while Britain fails to engage
By Mary Creagh First published in The Guardian, 8th September I am in Lebanon with Birmingham-based charity Islamic Relief to see the frontline of the refugee crisis. All summer there have been daily reminders of the greatest refugee crisis since the second world war. The harrowing picture of Syrian toddler Alan al-Kurdi, lying lifeless on…
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It’s time to act. Cities and towns across Britain are ready to make refugees welcome. The Prime Minister should no longer stand in their way.
by LCID Vice-President Alison McGovern MP Sometimes people find themselves doing things that would have seemed impossible only a short time before. A mother, clambering onto a rickety boat in the pitch black, clutching a child. A father giving the last of his family’s possessions for a single train ticket. What must a person have…
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Harriet Harman tells David Cameron we have a moral duty to act and take more refugees
First posted on The Labour Party Facebook page, 3rd September 2015. Dear Prime Minister, I am writing to you with regard to the worsening refugee crisis in Europe, and in particular your statement that you do not believe taking a few thousand refugees would solve the crisis. This is now the worst humanitarian crisis…
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Education for girls all over the world is the civil rights struggle of our time
By Gordon Brown First published by The Guardian, 6th July 2015 They are all Malala. Four defiant, courageous girls who stand toe-to-toe with the education campaigner Malala Yousafzai. Four ordinary girls who have done extraordinary things representing thousands of Malalas across this dark and dangerous world. And their cause – empowerment for girls – is…
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Vote Labour today to restore Britain’s leadership in the fight against global poverty!
. The choice in this election on international development is clear – between electing a Labour government to continue our tradition of helping the world’s poorest people…and a Conservative government whose pledges to voters do not contain a single mention of international development. And worse,their most likely coalition partners, UKIP, want to abolish DFID and the…
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Vote 2015 – The Choice on International Development
. The choice in this election on international development is clear – between electing a Labour government to continue our tradition of helping the world’s poorest people…and a Conservative government whose pledges to voters do not contain a single mention of international development. And worse,their most likely coalition partners, UKIP, want to abolish DFID and the…
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Ed Miliband speech on Foreign Policy at Chatham House
Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour Party, in a speech at Chatham House said: It is a great privilege to be here today. Chatham House has always led the way in shaping new thinking on Britain’s place in the world. So with the general election less than two weeks away now, there is no better…
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Development Doorstep 2 – This Saturday in Harrow!
LCID believes poverty is political, and that only the Labour Party has the values and record of delivery to deliver for people in poverty, wherever they live. The last Labour Government helped transform millions of lives for the better, and at LCID we are committed to doing all we can to return a Labour Government to…
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I leave this House feeling a huge amount of gratitude, but also with some concern – Gordon Brown’s valedictory speech in full
I ask this House to remember that our greatest successes as a country have come not when we have been divided nor when we have turned inwards, but when we have confidently looked outwards and thought globally, our eyes fixed on the wider world and the future. With the unwinding of the Pax Americana, and…
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Ed Miliband tells Cosmo: If I could change one thing in the world it would be to end extreme poverty
Ed Miliband was asked by Cosmo, if there was one thing he could change in the world, what would it be? Here’s what he answered: Read the rest of his answers here!
Labour Campaign for International Development 