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Below is the full text of Nadia Whittome's statement, which was issued after she broke the Labour whip by voting against the overseas operations bill at second reading on Wednesday evening. She was a member of Labour's frontbench but has…
John Healey has declared that a government bill relating to British troops serving overseas "creates the risk that the very gravest crimes including torture and other war crimes go unpunished" – but Labour did not vote against it tonight…
The UK government is getting ready to defy international law for the second time in two weeks. Before parliament this afternoon for its second reading, the overseas operations (service personnel and veterans) bill is their latest attempt to…
The authors of this article have all served in our nation's military. Between us, we have decades of service and we all hold strong Labour values. We’ve worked with fellow service personnel from across the Commonwealth – soldiers, sailors…
Lisa Nandy has said that the government still has "no clear strategy" when it comes to the UK's engagement with China, and declared that "national security has been an afterthought over the last decade". In an interview with BBC News this…
Labour has a long history of standing four-square behind our armed forces personnel. From Clement Attlee’s frontline involvement in the Gallipoli campaign to Major Denis Healey’s ‘good war' that culminated in him being the beach master at…
Keir Starmer has launched a new Labour Friends of the Forces engagement programme on Armed Forces Day, declaring that he is "proud of my country and proud of those who serve it". The Labour leader will reboot the scheme – originally founded…
On Armed Forces Day tomorrow, we will rightly celebrate the national pride we have in our military personnel – full time and reservist. They are respected worldwide for their professionalism and all-round excellence. And they represent the…
Labour has called for the government to re-establish the parliamentary committee on arms export controls (CAEC), and warned that the continued failure to do so could have a "huge impact on conflicts around the globe". In a letter to Jacob…
After a well-known private company failed to deliver on a promise of 13,000 security staff for the 2012 London Olympics, without hesitation or question, it was the armed forces who picked up the pieces. By the end of the Olympic operation…
When I first stood for Islington South and Finsbury – the Lib Dems' number one target seat in the country in the post-Iraq election – Robin Cook came and spent a day campaigning with me. He told everyone he spoke to that I’d been on all the…
Deputy leadership candidate Richard Burgon is set to unveil his proposal for a 'Labour Peace Pledge' that would give party members a veto over military action being supported by the leadership. At a public meeting in Oxford on Wednesday…
