LFPG is a network for Labour members & foreign policy professionals bringing expertise to the Labour Party. Founded by @peymasad & @jessicatoale
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Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Honoured to host emergency parliamentary briefing w’ HRH Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, @aksa_alsaud @SaudiEmbassyUK with @LabourFPG , co-chaired by @kitmalthouse @EmilyThornberry. With @Uma_Kumaran. Parliamentarians cleared diaries & packed the room. Thanks to @Peymasad @CharlotteLeslie
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Thank you to His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia @aksa_alsaud for joining us at @LabourFPG alongside @cmec_uk yesterday for the Emergency Briefing for Parliamentarians in the House of Commons, on the recent attacks from the Houthis.
Huge thanks to @EmilyThornberry and @kitmalthouse for co-chairing the session, and to all the Labour & Conservative members of both Houses of Parliament, that attended this briefing, including Minister @Uma_Kumaran on behalf of the FCDO.
Great team work with my friend @CharlotteLeslie !
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Honoured yesterday to host, with @LabourFPG , @kitmalthouse @EmilyThornberry a cross-party emergency parliamentary briefing, with the Ambasador of #KSA, HRH Prince Abdullah bin Khalid al Saud, @SaudiEmbassyUK . Parliamentarians cleared their diaries and packed the room. Thanks to all who made this happen. @Peymasad @CharlotteLeslie
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Looking forward to chairing this one, with our high level panel speakers on Monday 28th September at 9:30am in the Pullman, Mersey Suite.
Strategic Dialogue on the Middle East: UK-GCC cooperation in a changing region.
@SDoughtyMP - Minister for MENA
@AlexBallingerMP - Member FAC
@BahrainEmbUK - Ambassador of Bahrain
@QatarEmbassy_UK - Ambassador of Qatar
@UAEEmbassyUK - Ambassador of UAE
@KUWAITEMBASSYUK - Ambassador of Kuwait
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
At @BritainLeads we're gearing up for our biggest conference season yet with a total of 18 events!
Next: Labour in Liverpool where I'll be interviewing Development Minister @JennyChapman on Mon & joining other discussion during the week.🌹See you there!
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
HALO will be at the #LabourConference on Sunday, hosting a reception with @MAGsaveslives and @LabourFPG on the role the UK and its partners can play in helping to address the global rise in conflict.
🪖 We face the highest number of active conflicts since #WWII.
🌍 2 billion people (1/4 of the world’s population) live in conflict-affected areas - increasingly in urban areas.
💥 There are over 120 armed conflicts globally, involving over 60 states and 120 non-state groups. #Landmine use is rising for the first time in decades.
🆘 Forced displacement is at a post-war high of 110 million people. Nearly 300 million people will require humanitarian aid & protection in 2025.
⚠️ Increased use of improvised explosive devices is just one example of how the threat of explosive ordnance has evolved over the last decade.
📈 The global cost of violence in 2024 was $20 trillion – equivalent to the GDP of China being lost every year.
Learn more: bit.ly/46vN9gd
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Labour Foreign Policy Group will be hosting its annual MENA panel at party conference this year, which I am pleased to chair! Join us on Monday 29th September at 13:00 in Room 12 of the ACC in the Secure Zone to hear from:
@Louise_Jones_MP Minister for Veterans and People
H.E Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohamed Al-Khalifa, Bahrain Ambassador to the UK @BahrainEmbUK
Gabrielle Rifkind of Oxford Process
and @AlexBallingerMP Member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Join us TODAY in Oxford at Teddy College, University of Oxford to discuss the UK-US Special Relationship with @AlexBallingerMP and Professor Emily Jones. Chaired by our Chair, Cllr Peymana Assad.
RSVP here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-now-…
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Thank you to US Ambassador Jane D. Hartley for a wonderful welcome reception.
Our shared values and interests, and a dedication to democratic, transparent institutions will see greater co -operation between the UK and US.
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
"Peace, Peace Peace. The potential for loss of life & humanitarian disaster in Sudan is huge, we need to work towards peace" says @AlistairCarns when asked about the what needs to be done on the situation in Sudan during the @LabourFPG's panel on the Middle East & North Africa.
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Come and join us, this afternoon at 12:00 in the Pullman Hotel in the Mersey Suite, lunch and drinks provided, for our Annual Panel discussion on the Middle East and North Africa #LabourConferece24 #Lab24
With
@HFalconerMP
@AlistairCarns
@jasmineelgamal
@SaudiEmbassyUK
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Thank you @bondngo for partnering with us at @LabourFPG and @LabourCID on this panel discussion this morning alongside @EmilyThornberry and @DavidTaylor85 , alongside Frances Guy at #Lab24 on what Progressive Realism means for International Development
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Looking forward to hosting this reception this evening on behalf of @LabourFPG, @TheHALOTrust, @MAGsaveslives and @LabourCID
We will have the new 🇬🇧 Labour Government’s International Development Minister @AnnelieseDodds and the new Minister for MENA, Hamish Falconer MP speak
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Headed to Liverpool for @UKLabour party conference? Us too!
We’re looking forward to talking all things international development with @AnnelieseDodds on Monday with @LabourCID and @LabourFPG
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
The shift from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) to the new UK Integrated Security Fund (UKISF) risks downgrading the UK’s efforts to address evolving global conflicts: bit.ly/3UU9cc4 @TheHALOTrust's @Calumcraig & @Saferworld's @LewiBrooks for @LabourFPG
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Thanks @LabourFPG for hosting this blog from @CalumCraig01 & I on changes in UK security funding. We argue that positive innovations may be lost if a narrow framing of national security dominates the new UK Integrated Security Fund and it doesn't pivot to address future conflict
NEW BLOG: @TheHALOTrust's @Calumcraig & @Saferworld's @LewiBrooks take a look what impact the shift from the CSSF to the government's new UK Integrated Security Fund (UKISF) will have: labourforeignpolicy.org.uk/p…
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Great thought piece from @DavidLammy in @ForeignAffairs
People from the Global South reading this, will think finally someone gets it. "A progressive realism worth its name begins by being honest about assumptions the West made in the past that turned out to be wrong."
@b_judah
Progressive Realism will underpin @UKLabour's foreign policy approach.
It takes the world as it is. Not as we wish it to be. It is realist means for progressive ends.
Today I’ve published ‘The Case for Progressive Realism’ in @ForeignAffairs 👇🏿
foreignaffairs.com/united-ki…
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Excellent @LabourFPG meeting this evening on democracy in Eastern Europe.
With @JessicaToale chairing, @SDoughtyMP, @aliona_hlivco and @FredThomasUK spoke to the challenges and what a Labour Govt would do.
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Great to be at @LabourFPG’s event this evening in Westminster on #Democracy in Eastern Europe with excellent Labour candidates @JessicaToale & @FredThomasUK,
@SDoughtyMP &
@aliona_hlivco of @BritainLeads.
Join us on Monday 4th March for a discussion on Ukraine, Eastern Europe & the importance of defending democracy with Shadow Europe minister @SDoughtyMP.
Details and RSVP 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/eastern-e…
Labour Foreign Policy Group (LFPG) retweeted
Great to hear from the Shadow Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy, who is delivering the opening speech at @LondonLabour Conference.
#LONLAB24 – at London, England
