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Speaking at the Labour Campaign for Council Housing fringe meeting at Labour conference, shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury congratulated us on "successfully campaigning to reaffirm our commitment to mass council house building and…
The pandemic. The climate crisis. Environmental degradation and destruction. Rising poverty and inequality. The challenges facing the world right now are vast. Yet even as their scale often escapes comprehension, in the UK we recognise our…
This week, the government, in one fell swoop, broke a manifesto promise and a pledge to the poorest people on our planet. It is a decision that will lead to the preventable death of children and dramatically weaken the UK’s influence…
Boris Johnson and G7 leaders had a chance to save countless lives this weekend by agreeing a comprehensive plan to vaccinate the globe against Covid, build back a more equal world and tackle climate change. He, and they, failed. As Gordon…
Labour has urged UK government ministers to help tackle the looming global debt crisis by legislating to temporarily stop private creditors from suing for debt recovery in a move that would help the world's poorest countries. Ahead of the…
From the moment we were appointed to our roles in the shadow development team, we have been clear that gender equality would be a priority for Labour, as part of our deep commitment to human rights and tackling inequalities wherever we find…
The aid sector was rocked in 2018 when revelations surfaced that humanitarian aid workers had been paying local vulnerable women for sex in Haiti while responding to the 2010 earthquake. More recently, during the Ebola outbreak in the…
The Prime Minister last week promised the House of Commons that he would end an era of British retreat from the world stage. Instead, in breaking his promise to the world’s poorest and the British people, he has signalled the biggest…
The coronavirus pandemic has shown how interconnected and vulnerable we all are to global challenges. A virus that began by first latching itself to one community has reverberated around the world with devastating effect. Over 50 million…
As the United Nations general assembly met to mark the organisation's 75th anniversary, secretary-general António Guterres renewed his call for a global ceasefire to help tackle the spread of coronavirus. Ceasefires in some of the most…
The Department for International Development, set up under the last Labour government to co-ordinate international aid and development, has been consistently rated as the most effective and transparent government department for delivering…
15 years ago today, I stood in The Meadows of Edinburgh as over a quarter of a million passionate, diverse voices from every part of the UK, joined together. I was there, having helped organise the peaceful, powerful 'white band' that later…
