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This is an edited version of Glenys Kinnock and Stephen Doughty’s introduction to their pamphlet ‘Beyond Aid: Labour's ambition for a radical development agenda' which you can read in full, here. The launch event is being held tomorrow…
Internationalism, a movement advocating greater economic and political cooperation among nations for the benefit of all, has been a strong tradition within the Labour party from the beginning. Our values and ideals have always looked beyond…
Tomorrow, negotiations begin in New York to agree the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, which will be agreed at the United Nations in September. They will set the global development agenda for the next fifteen years and will define a…
Mary Creagh, Shadow International Development Secretary, has attacked the Government for reducing aid going to Sierra Leone and Liberia prior to the outbreak of Ebola. She said that although the Government has said it will give £230 million…
Last month the last British combat troops left Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, ending a thirteen year-long military campaign that has seen 453 of our soldiers lose their lives. For many, Britain’s involvement in Afghanistan has been…
This week we were reminded by one of the world’s leading businessmen and philanthropists that the UK Government and general public has a long and extraordinary record in terms of its support for the world’s poorest countries and…
Every football fan has got a favourite football strip. That kit your team wore when they won the Cup, or the first game you went to, the season you got promoted, or the first year you had a season ticket. I’ve got more football tops than…
A future Labour government needs to be trusted with the public purse if it is going to survive more than a single term. Winning back trust will involve redefining how we spend money – so let’s start with aid. The sometimes hysterical debate…
A great deal of media space has been given to immigration, not least by the xenophobic UKIP, over the last year. More recently, Michael Gove has stated that “British values” should be taught in schools. Not much has been debated about…
2015 will be a decisive year, not just because the General Election gives Labour the chance to regain power, but because it is the year when global leaders decide both what will replace the Millennium Development Goals and look to agree a…
Since its earliest days Labour has been an internationalist party and proud of it, too. From Keir Hardy and Harold Wilson to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, those who shaped Labour’s vision in the 20th and early 21st Century regarded the fight…
As we approach the European elections, we’ll be reminded yet again that the Tories want to repeal the Human Rights Act (HRA) and possibly pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) altogether. The issue unfortunately gets…
