Your Bill remains completely unacceptable, Mr Straw

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UK Home Secretary Jack Straw has made some concessions to backbench MPs over the Immigration and Asylum Bill. However, this legislation still discriminates against asylum-seekers, who are the poorest and most vulnerable people in UK society. The UK has a particular duty to accept asylum-seekers, as during the previous Conservative administration it was the largest arms dealer in the world after the US, supplying weapons to dictators who used them against many of those who are now seeking asylum. Giving asylum-seekers vouchers for food instead of cash will make them vulnerable to racist attacks.

International Affairs, Immigration & Emigration, Political Asylum, Laws, regulations and rules, Asylum, Right of, Right of asylum, Emigration and immigration, Political refugees

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The hypocrisy at the heart of America's banana war

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The UK and the US have both shown hypocrisy in relation to international trade. They have sought free access to international markets for their finished goods, while creating effective trade barriers to stop developing countries selling their much more inexpensively produced food in the US or the UK. Extensive investment is made in protecting farmers from free trade, but this money could be used to create new, highly-skilled employment. The current trade conflict between the US and Europe over bananas highlights the extent to which political considerations dominate international trade issues.

United States, International economic relations, Trade Relations, Political aspects, International trade, Trade policy

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Forget the old feuds and save the economy

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The UK government is giving too little attention to economic policy. The Treasury pre-Budget report contains a number of serious errors, and Chancellor Gordon Brown's predictions for gross domestic product are too optimistic for both investment and trade. Falling investment will have a negative impact on the government's welfare-to-work programme, and this could in turn lead to the Labour party losing seats on local councils. It is now vital that the government focuses on economic policy.

Economic Planning & Research, Political activity, Economic policy, Economic conditions, Labour Party (United Kingdom)

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