Tag: douglas alexander
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Douglas Alexander: Responsibility to the poor: a matter of justice, not charity
Next week Douglas Alexander is publishing a new pamphlet with the Foreign Policy Centre – today read this preview on The Guardian’s Development site. Clear, progressive principles must underpin the development community’s handling of state fragility, poverty and inequality Human history does not always advance at a steady and inevitable pace. Some years, whether
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How we reported Britain in World debate on twitter
LCID was in the hall this morning for the Britain in the World session. We tweeted throughout as @LabourCID. Here’s what we had to say. In the hall for Britain in the World which is about to start at #lab10 – LCID hopes to get called to ask a question later While we waited for
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Aid is a marathon not a sprint
Douglas Alexander writes in The Guardian today that ‘the coalition has failed to commit fully to international aid, yet it is a policy that remains morally right and in our common interest.’ “Instead of creating straw men to burn ceremoniously in an ill-conceived strategy to placate sceptics on the right of his party, Andrew Mitchell
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Cameron fails to fight for world’s poor as G8 drops $50bn aid pledge
First posted on Left Foot Forward. When Harriet Harman asked David Cameron last week to give due credit to Gordon Brown for his work on development, he replied: “I’d be delighted to, if he could be bothered to turn up to this House.” Apart from being disrespectful to a former prime minister and Chancellor respected
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Read Douglas Alexander’s speech to LCID
On Tuesday 29 June, Douglas Alexander spoke at an LCID event about the future of International Development. You can read the full text of his speech here: “Thank you David for that kind introduction – and for the valuable work you and other members of the Labour Campaign for International Development have undertaken in recent
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Invitation: Join LCID as we host Douglas Alexander – This Tuesday!
Join Labour Campaign for International Development as we host Rt Hon Douglas Alexander, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. Tuesday 29 June | 7.30-8.30pm Grand Committee Room, Houses of Parliament Almost five years since 250,000 marched through the streets of Edinburgh in support of Make Poverty History, and millions around the world took part in
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Labour’s Manifesto on International Development
Extract from Labour’s manifesto The global poverty emergency: our moral duty, our common interest Labour’s international leadership on development has helped transform the lives of millions across the world. Yet too many people still live in extreme poverty, die from treatable diseases, or are denied the chance to go to school. We will lead an
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The Global #changewesee
Over the last two weeks, hundreds of Labour activists have been tweeting about change they’ve seen in their communities. From new schools, to refurbished hospitals, to libraries, to SureStart centres, the campaign has catalogued hundreds of examples of the tangible differences that the Labour government has made in the last 13 years and reminded us of the
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Stars launch Global Poverty Promise
Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today – shown for the first time at LCID’s launch on Monday – the celebrities
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What is a “socialist Anne Robinson with pom-poms” when it’s at home?
Review of our Launch for Progress Online by LCID exec member and anti-poverty campaigner Steve Cockburn With a deficit to reduce and public services to protect, why should progressives care about Labour’s commitment to increase aid and work to end global poverty? The answer at the launch of the Labour Campaign for International Development last
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