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
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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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They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force.
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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's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,
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I am very gloomy about the Middle East.
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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.