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A message from Anna McMorrin on her time as Shadow DFID Minister
by Anna McMorrin MP On Friday I was appointed as the new Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice. As a result, I will be moving on from my current role as Shadow Minister for International Development. Over the past year we have faced a time of unprecedented circumstances, from COVID to conflict to climate.
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Watch: Understanding the Integrated Review
The Government have now released their ‘Integrated Review‘ of the UK’s defence, and diplomacy and development policy. Except development barely featured. You can read our reactions to it on both development and civilian protection issues here. In response to the review’s publication, we hosted a special event with our friends at Labour Friends of the Forces
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LCID Reaction to Integrated Review
The Integrated Review is weak on civilian protection, whilst development is barely mentioned at all. LCID’s reaction: The PM spinning that he’ll use the review to make a ‘personal commitment’ to restoring the 0.7% aid target doesn’t cut it. The wording of the review says it’ll return ‘when fiscal situation allows’ – not a firm
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Why this World Social Justice Day Labour must make the case for internationalism
by Libby Smith, LCID Executive member and COO at Coalition for Global Prosperity With Covid, conflict and disaster splashed across our TV screens, it’s easy to forget the human beings behind the headlines, behind the statistics. It’s as easy to forget the huge progress being made. The capacity that an effective international development strategy has
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Urge your MP to support the Genocide amendment next Tuesday!
Last week, in the biggest back-bench rebellion in recent times, thirty-four Conservative MPs broke the whip on a cross-party amendment to the trade bill, which lost by only 11 votes. The amendment comes back to the Commons next week, and your MP is one a few who are identified as key to which way the
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Pass a motion in your CLP in support of UK Aid, and in solidarity with the Uyghur people
LCID has two campaigns – in defence of UK aid, and for the protection people from mass atrocities. To raise awareness of both these issues amongst Labour members, and to help ensure Labour puts forward strong policies on them, we would welcome your support in passing two CLP motions. The first, on UK Aid, calls on
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Oppose the cut to UK aid – write to your MP!
Setting the path to reaching 0.7%, and securing the votes that enshrined that target in law, is one of Labour’s greatest achievements and is helping transform the lives of millions of people every year. Yet the Tories want to cut our aid to 0.5%, just at the time when aid is needed to prevent the
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Open Labour and LCID Report on A Progressive Foreign Policy
LCID is pleased to be supporting Open Labour to publish ‘A Progressive Foreign Policy For New Times,’ a new pamphlet written by Dr Harry Pitts and Professor Paul Thompson. We were particularly grateful to have been joined at the launch of the report last night by Oscar nominated and Emmy and BAFTA award winning journalist
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Invitation: Join Lisa Nandy and BAFTA award winning journalist Waad Al-Kateab for the launch of a new paper on an ethical foreign policy
Invitation: LCID and Open Labour Pamphlet Launch ‘A progressive foreign policy for new times’ LCID is pleased to be supporting Open Labour to launch a new pamphlet written by Dr Harry Pitts and Professor Paul Thompson which argues that Labour should put forward a new foreign policy inspired by two great figures of our movement –
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LCID Statement on Tory Aid Cuts
This is another truly shameful day for this government. This is money that should be spent immunising children to stop them dying of preventable causes, educating them so they can have a decent future and escape poverty, or stopping women from dying in childbirth. Between now and the next budget, it’s a cut that could
Labour Campaign for International Development 