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Clare Short

Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is 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 Minister Tony Blair from 3 May 1997 until her resignation from that post on 12 May 2003. Shortly before her retirement from Parliament in 2010, she was strongly rebuked by her own party when she announced her support for a hung parliament, a situation which subsequently occurred at the 2010 General Election.

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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the ...

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was ...

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all ...

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really deali ...

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ir ...

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in ...

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in ...

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with peopl ...

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French posi ...

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression ...

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for ...

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [O ...

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to r ...