Gordon: The story of David – and why we are all our brothers and sisters’ keepers

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Gordon Brown has today signalled his commitment to tackling poverty in the developing world, with a powerful video for the ONE Vote 2010.

ONE Vote 2010 is the new election campaign of ONE, the international group fighting extreme poverty and the spread preventable diseases. The new campaign for the election is based on ONE’s work during the 2008 Presidential elections in the US.

They are asking voters to use social media tools to engage local candidates, and are partnering with the Global Poverty Project to host ‘Inconvenient Truth’ style presentations across the UK. The grassroots focus is designed to give new voice to voters’ concerns about global poverty in the run-up to the general election.

As it did in the US, ONE has video statements from all the main party leaders explaining their development priorities if elected, after thousands of its members signed a petition asking Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg to go “on the record” with their commitments.Â

Watch Gordon’s moving video here:

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You can also see the other leaders’ videos here.

ONE will also be live-streaming the Development Ministers’ debate later this month, and encouraging its members to submit development orientated questions to the Leaders’ Foreign Policy Debate on April 22nd.