In 1998, the then UK secretary of state for international development, Clare Short, gave a speech to British exporters in which she said she didn't see the promotion of British corporations as part of her brief, as aid for trade was entirely discredited by the Pergau scandal.
The former international development secretary Clare Short wrongly claimed more than £8,000 in expenses, it was disclosed yesterday.
Senior figures in the intelligence community and across Whitehall briefed the former international development secretary Clare Short that Tony Blair had made a secret agreement last summer with George Bush to invade Iraq in February or March, she claimed yesterday.
Getting girls into school is first step to reaching MDGs GENEVA / CAIRO / NEW YORK, 11 December 2003 – International development efforts are drastically short-changing girls, leaving hundreds of millions of girls and women uneducated and unable to contribute to positive change for themselves, their children, or their communities, a major UNICEF report released today contends.
At one stage Clare Short, the international development secretary, complained she was not getting information from the military.
But Mr Brown still has Alistair Darling at social security, Clare Short at international development and Andrew Smith backing him up as chief secretary.
The signatories, also include former secretary of state for international development and Birmingham MP Clare Short, who said: "These suspensions are at odds with freedom of speech and the right to protest, setting a threatening precedent for how dissent is dealt with on campuses across the country.
Clare Short, who was international development secretary until she resigned from the cabinet after the war, concludes it is the former.
When new laws opened the Philippines up to international mining 10 years ago, companies flooded in and wreaked havoc in indigenous communities, says MP Clare Short, former UK international development secretary and now chair of the UK-based Working Group on Mining in the Philippines.
The Kendall camp claim to have the 35 to get on the ballot paper, but Hunt and Mary Creagh, the shadow international international development secretary, are thought to be well short.
