Clare Short
Independent Labour | Birmingham Ladywood
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Welcome to my website, which is supplied courtesy of ePolitix.
I am Clare Short, Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood.
This website is for the many people who contact me asking for information about articles I have written, or speeches I have made. It contains copies of my speeches, articles and interviews since May 2003 and some speeches made when I was Secretary of State for International Development. For further ministerial speeches and publications from 1997-2003 please go to the Dfid website.
It is also for my Ladywood constituents so that I can keep them informed of what I am doing on their behalf.
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Latest Speeches
- Debate on the implementation of the 2004 ICJ opinion on the Israeli war
- UN international meeting on the question of Palestine
- Ebor Lecture: "Apocalypse Now – Global Equity and Sustainable Living, the preconditions for human survival"
- The Snelling Lecture
- Speech made as part of the York University lecture series to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade: “Slavery and its Aftermath”
- Opening speech made at the International Conference of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament: “In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”
- Speech made during the debate on the Middle East Peace Process
- Speech made during the debate on the Iraq Inquiry
- Speech made during the debate on Trident
- Debate on the sale of radar system to Tanzania
Latest Articles
- With gas prices soaring 35 pc, we need to go to ground
- How can Miliband be the answer to Labour's ills?
- Je ne regrette
- A tortuous tale of human trafficking
- Remember the legacy of the Birmingham Six case
- Birmingham should become a transition city
- A lesson about suicide bombing
- It's more than just changing light bulbs
- Do we pay too much tax?
- Article on Iraq and the Middle East

