Clare Short
Clare Short
Clare Shortis a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She stood down as a member of parliament at the 2010 general election. Short was Secretary of State for International Development in the government of Prime...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 February 1946
birmingham died obviously people pub worse
But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.
system
There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,
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They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force.
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You might not think it to read the coverage in the British media, but this woman is some kind of hero in the poorest regions of the world. People in the Foreign Office used to laugh at the international development department. Now its work is seen as integral to British international standing.
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The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.
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There are thousands and thousands of people on the other side of the border, not being fed, babies are being born, people are becoming sick,
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We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,
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Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.
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I mean the UK in this time was also getting - spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on.
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I just couldn't believe that he would do it, that anyone could be so deceitful over a matter of war, fighting for human life and taking it.
gloomy middle
I am very gloomy about the Middle East.
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It's very ugly. We're spending a lot more, we're getting rich people to fund it, and it is corroding our political system.
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I will not uphold a breach of international law or this undermining of the U.N. and will resign from the government.
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I'm not sending a minister because I don't expect it to be an effective summit.