Refugee Lives Matter. We must step our campaigning in defence of refugees and against right-wing scapegoating writes Jeremy Corbyn. The global and ongoing refugee crisis has been back in the headlines in recent weeks, because of tragic scenes of the fire in a refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos. But refugees have also been the focus …
Parliament resumed last week and an unusual summer break, is now behind us.Caution, and ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are continuing everywhere including of course in the Houses of Parliament. Dissenting voices among government ranks are complaining about the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of lockdown rules. Between towns and regions there are also intermittent variations on these …
The past few weeks have not been at all typical of summer months in years gone by. The country is experiencing record high temperatures, and Covid-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions continue to dominate our lives. Solutions to the pandemic are slow in the making and in the absence of a vaccine, or a massive shift in …
Nuclear Weapons Cannot Solve the Crises of Our Time It’s time to step up our campaigning for peace and disarmament writes Jeremy Corbyn MP. On Hiroshima Day each August we remember the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which indiscriminately killed over 100,000 civilians and military personnel. Still today, many survivors live …
This month I have been as busy as ever, attending various local, national, and international meetings online. Lockdown restrictions are slowly lifting, albeit with much confusion and backpeddling from the government on promises and solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic. Still, the technology continues to accommodate our workfrom outside parliament, whilst a ‘bit of both’ is …
Jeremy Corbyn: Brazil’s coronavirus deaths have shot up, as Bolsonaro neglects public health – let’s speak up against him Brazil now has the second most deaths and cases in the world from COVID-19, with figures as of June 20 of 1,038,568 cases and 49,090 deaths. Disgracefully, Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro initially dismissed Covid-19 as …
