Tag: labour
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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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Douglas Alexander speaks at Labour Campaign for International Development Launch
Last night, the Labour Campaign for International Development officially launched at an event at the House of Commons, with an impressive audience of politicians, the international development sector and party activists. There was only room to stand as Secretary of State Douglas Alexander began his keynote speech, with Minister Mike Foster also taking questions and…
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LCID Launch Tonight!
Later today, the Labour Campaign for International Development will have its official launch in an event at the House of Commons. This is an exciting day for LCID: we have already begun the debate about International Development on this website and now we have the chance to push forward, to gain support for a progressive,…
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Why have The Times got the knives out for DfID?
This post was first posted on Left Foot Forward. Following on from The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC – allegations that Left Foot Forward showed to be unfounded – they have once again fuelled the aid sceptics’ fire with several leading articles in their paper today.…
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Haiti Humanitarian Relief Trebled
International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has announced that the Labour Government will treble its funding for humanitarian relief in response to the Haiti earthquake. Based on assessments on the scale of the disaster, aid will rise from 10 to 30 million dollars. The additional 20 million dollars will be put to work providing further relief…
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Allegations on TUC’s development role without foundation
Posted on Left Foot Forward on Friday A slew of recent articles seek to undermine the important and justifiable role for the Trades Union Congress in delivering development policy. On Monday, The Times reported that “The Government is giving the Trades Union Congress millions of pounds from its foreign aid budget to pay for the education…
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Oxfam interviewed by Progress on food & agriculture
Interview by Progress of Oxfam’s Director of Campaigns & Policy, worth a look. “Oxfam’s campaigns and policy director Phil Bloomer responds to Hilary Benn’s announcement on the future of food in Britain. He says greater production and sustainability are possible – if the government can manage to redirect subsidies away from vested interests and towards…
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The Tories announce their Afghanistan strategy, but there’s a lot left unanswered
In this article in The Times, William Hague and George Osborne are credited with announcing a new Tory policy for the development of Afghanistan. Their aim, so they say, is to draw on the military to carry out “quick impact aid work and infrastructure projects in the aftermath of fighting.” Surely this sounds like a…
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LCID to formally launch next month – come to our launch event
Labour’s transformed the lives of many people in the last decade, and nowhere has the impact of a Labour Government been more acutely felt than in international development. For many of us, eradicating poverty is the reason we joined the Labour Party, and there is much to be proud of. Since 1997, Labour has helped…
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