Quotations from Eleanor Rathbone are on the wall of Greenbank gardens Today I visited a favourite spot in Liverpool Mossley Hill - Greenbank Park. Greenank was part of the home of the Rathbone family. William Rathbone VI was Liberal MP for Liverpool and Chief Whip in...
Questions today to the Government about the decision to send Commissioners into the City of Liverpool
Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government what role it envisages for the Commissioners being sent by the Local Government Minister to run the planning, highways, and regeneration directorates of Liverpool City Council; what their purpose and objectives...
As one Chinese pro democracy activist said: “the Chinese Communist Party is much more efficient- they count the votes even before the votes are cast so we always know the result without having to have an election.”
As this cartoon from The Times wittily suggests the people who most want democracy to fail are leaders who would never submit themselves to an open election against a strong opposition party. The counting of votes in my parliamentary constituency took place in...
The Case For A Greater Liverpool Combined Authority
The Case For A Greater Liverpool Combined Authority Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Storey, not least because in the 1970 general election, what seems like a million years ago now, we were both students and...
Mind The Gap – Keynote Speech to CSAN Conference on Poverty – June 2013 – and Narrowgate Emergency Night Shelter Salford Closed Following changes to the Housing Benefit rules
Interview on the Increasing Poverty Gap In Britain: www.premier.org.uk/hearttoheart See also Archbishop Vincent Nichols: <a href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22745"> CSAN Conference, London Keynote Speech, 12 June 2013 David Alton: ...
Margaret Thatcher
My first encounter with Margaret Thatcher was just a few days before she won the 1979 vote of no confidence - the vote which brought down Jim Callaghan's government and precipitated the 1979 General Election. She was in Liverpool, campaigning in the Liverpool Edge...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of "the eternal dissident"
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of “the eternal dissident”
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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New Opium War Targeting Democratic Countries – raised by Secretary Blinken with CCP leadership – and Minister says illicit labs in China have “been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.”
Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3921): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the production and distribution of illicit...
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar.
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar. As occurred with the...
Forty year campaign demanding justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests in the 50s – with one Commons debate in the 80s taking place in the middle of the night, at 3.50 am. Today just 1500 of the 20,000 servicemen put in harms way are still alive. The Defence Minister, Earl Minto, deserves thanks for his straightforward reply in the Lords yesterday. However long it takes, injustices must be put right.
Throughout the 80s I campaigned for justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests. On one occasion I initiated a debate in the Commons at 3.50 am in the middle of the night - a debate that the Government didn't want. Today just 1500 of the 20,000...