Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Bennis a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliamentfor Leeds Central since a by-election in 1999. He served in the cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under the premierships of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Since 2010, he has served in various Labour Party shadow cabinets, most recently as Shadow Foreign Secretary from May 2015 to June 2016, when he was dismissed by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1953
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Delays in getting aid to those who need it cost lives. That is why we need to ensure we have the means to deliver it straight away and why we need this emergency fund.
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I am concerned by recent developments in Uganda and I have decided to cut 15 million pounds from our planned budget support this year and postpone a decision on whether to provide a further five million pounds until after the elections.
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Internationally, it is true the response hasn't frankly been good enough, and I don't understand it because nobody can be in any doubt whatsoever about the scale of the crisis,
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Our immediate contribution of 3 million pounds will help deliver food to those most in need. But on its own, this emergency response will not help people to escape from poverty and hunger.
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It is doing its work and those who are committing these crimes will in the end be brought to account.
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Every year up to three million children die from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines that are available now or could be in the near future.
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If we are going to avoid a further wave of deaths we have to get shelter and protection to people who need it,
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And as we respond to the requests for help then the sum that we commit will rise,
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There is a continued need for more helicopter capacity, to move in the inaccessible areas. The terrain here is very difficult and winter is approaching.
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We have very little time to help left,
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We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world
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Our changing climate has changed our politics