David Cairns MP Articles

A speech by David Cairns MP, delivered by John Woodcock MP on behalf of Labour Friends of Israel.

The values shared by the UK and Israeli labour movements form the bedrock of the progressive case for Israel writes David Cairns ahead of tonight’s event

She is almost seventy, wiry and bird-like, yet stately in her yellow and green traditional African robe and head-dress. She is an elder in her church, and like most of her peers she is a mother and grandmother; unlike most of them, she is HIV positive.

Leadership candidates’ views on party reform are akin to theologians tying themselves in knots. All are saying the same thing, but is the substance really there to resolve the contradictions in their desires?