Tag: labour
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Harriet Harman responds to the Comprehensive Spending Review
Statement from Harriet Harman, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, on the Comprehensive Spending Review: “We welcome the government’s commitment to continue with Labour’s target of 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid from 2013 but freezing the percentage of aid for two years will inevitably beg the question about whether they will deliver
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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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International Development at #Lab10 Conference – Monday 27th
International Development will get its moment in the spotlight this morning when Shadow Secretary of State, Douglas Alexander MP addresses conference as part of the Britain in the World plenary session (Conference Hall from 9am). Once the speeches are over lunchtime has a solidarity theme to it, with Parliamentary Friends of Colombia hosting Colombia: The
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Congratulations to Ed Miliband
LCID congratulates Ed Miliband MP on becoming the new leader of the Labour Party. We look forward to working with the former Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change to ensure global poverty stays high on the parties agenda in the coming years. During the Leadership campaign we asked Ed about his views on
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International Development at #Lab10 Conference – Sunday 26th
The fringe programme kicks off and the highlight for LCID is Fighting Poverty in the ‘No-Money era’: Could Robin Hood protect the poor and the Planet? Hosted by Oxfam and the TUC at 6pm in Manchester Central, Central 4. LCID has been campaigning in support of a Robin Hood Tax for the last year, and
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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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Thank you for voting in our poll
Thank you to everyone who voted in the LCID poll to decide what we will be asking the Labour Leadership candidates in our video hustings. The results are in and you can view them here. What happens next? We’ll be asking the leadership candidates about their views on the topics you have chosen and what
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What would you ask the Labour leadership candidates?
LCID wants to know what you would ask the Labour leadership candidates about. Over the next few weeks, we will be filming the candidates answering the questions that you have put to them. But we need to know what you think Labour’s next leader’s priorities should be. We will be premiering our video hustings in
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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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