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
aid cost delays deliver emergency ensure means straight
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.
fall heal-itself tree
As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate
climate climate-change changed
Our changing climate has changed our politics
zero together needs
Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use
business needs management
Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need
responsibility leaving climate-change
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
future vision world
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
commit help requests respond sum
And as we respond to the requests for help then the sum that we commit will rise,