Tag: Tories
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Tory front bench ruin Debt Bill – co-sign our letter to Cameron
On Friday, the Conservative party scuppered a bill by Labour MPs on Debt Relief. The Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill was being taken through its report and third reading stages today by Sally Keeble MP after the bill’s promoter Andrew Gwynne, became ill. A cross party consensus had been agreed at committee stage of the
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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
Labour Campaign for International Development 