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Support Fairtrade Fortnight!
It’s Fairtrade Fortnight! The Labour and Cooperative movement has a proud history of supporting Fairtrade – we’d encourage everyone to keep buying Fairtrade products, and get involved in Fairtrade Fortnight in the coming days. In government we supported FAIRTRADE with DFID funding since we created the department in 1997. Labour believes in the values at…
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A Labour Approach to Development: LCID’s Manifesto
In ‘A Labour Approach to Development’ we set out LCID’s manifesto asks ahead of the 2015 election. The document was submitted to the National Policy Forum’s ‘Britain’s Global Role‘ policy consultation last summer. This ideas contained in this document are our own ideas for what Labour’s internationalist vision should be in the coming years. What…
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Labour’s proud record of Internationalism
Inspired by what you’ve seen? Join LCID as a member and together let’s return a Labour government in May!
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Say no to tax dodging!
For too long tax dodging has robbed us of vital funds we need to provide world class public services – and the same is true when companies don’t pay their fair share of tax in developing countries too. That’s why we’re proud to support the Labour Party’s campaign on tax dodging. Labour has put tax…
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Britain in an interconnected and unstable world
LCID Honorary Vice-President Stephen Doughty MP and Gemma Doyle MP for Policy Network’s Labour Century pamphlet Britain stands at a crossroads. And in an ever-changing global environment, it is imperative that she is able to respond, adapt and mould herself to today’s geopolitical world. This new world is increasingly characterised by multilateralism, cooperation and consensus.…
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Photos from our #LabourWorld event
Thank you to everyone who attended our #LabourWorld event last week. Over three hundred people joined LCID and twenty sister organisations to hear Labour’s next Foreign Secretary, Development Secretary, Climate Secretary and Defence Minister on a panel chaired by Mary Riddell. LCID’s Honorary Vice-President Stephen Doughty wrapped up the event, which also saw the launch…
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Labour’s Foreign Policy: Principles and Priorities
On Monday 2nd February, ahead of the UK general election in May, the Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander MP delivered a speech about Britain’s future foreign policy to Chatham House. A transcript of the speech is available here, however his concluding remarks are below: “The response to contemporary challenges – the return of geo-political competition;…
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Beyond Aid Inquiry – LCID’s Evidence Submission
Today the House of Commons International Development Committee released the report of their inquiry, Beyond Aid. In LCID’s evidence to the inquiry we set out our views on how to build a more pro-rights, pro-equality and multilateralist approach to development, one which not only lifts people out of poverty but fundamentally redistributes power and address…
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Don’t dodge the issue, we need to crack down on tax avoidance
By Billy HIll, LCID Membership Officer Love it or loathe it, tax is the life-blood for public services across the world. For me, the money sourced from UK tax-payers has given me a great education, covered the cost of my nasty definitely-not-dancing-related broken ankle last year, and gets me to work every morning by way…
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Speech by Labour’s next International Development Secretary Mary Creagh MP on Inequality and Universal Health Coverage
Speech by Labour’s next International Development Secretary Mary Creagh MP on Inequality and Universal Health Coverage Thank you, Melissa for your kind invitation to address the Institute for Development Studies. You are world leaders in your field and it is a great honour to be here. You play a crucial part in training the next generation…
Labour Campaign for International Development 