Sarah Champion
@SarahChampionMP
Proud to be Labour MP for Rotherham & Chair of the International Development Select Committee. RT & likes are not endorsements.
221 MPs, from 9 parties, have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now
6th Report of @HumanRightsCtte - Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains - is out today. Compelling account of how goods tainted by slave labour end up in UK homes & places of work,Unanimous report spells out what must be done. @Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch @EdwardJDavey @Nigel_Farage
The UK risks being a dumping ground for goods made using forced labour. No effective safeguards are in place to prevent these goods entering the UK and being sold to consumers. Read our report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5901/jtse…
Alongside 221 MPs from 9 parties, I have co-signed a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now. @SarahChampionMP
🌿🌱 Good news on #MangroveDay from @FAO & @theGCF Communities in the Gambia have planted 350,000 mangrove tree seedlings to protect coasts, fish stocks, and futures. 👇 fao.org/gcf/news-and-e… @faogambia #ClimateAction
Recognising a Palestinian state will give hope of the right to self determination bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2l…
Utterly ridiculous for Israel to say food can be parachuted into #Gaza. It will cause riots, will go to fittest, Israel controls air traffic & would only be tiny amounts. Israel needs to open ALL boarders & let aid flood in via UN news.sky.com/story/israel-a…
'This is an entirely man-made famine... it's an intolerable situation that has to change.' @SarahChampionMP, who co-ordinated a letter to the PM urging him to recognise a Palestinian state, calls on Israel to 'open the borders' so aid can get into Gaza.
Huge apologies to @munirawilson! She should have been on MP letter urging the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary to recognise Palestine, I messed up and forgot to add her. I will be including her, and a number of new MPs, to the list on Monday. Sorry 😞
221 MPs, from 9 parties, have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now
221 MPs, from 9 parties, have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now
We have published our report on the Israel-Palestine conflict. We have spent the last nine months taking evidence on the conflict. Today, we are calling on the Government to act more boldly and bravely to deliver a two-state solution. Read the report ⬇️ publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmse…
A significant moment. Let's act multilaterally with our European allies
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
"I want it, we all desire it, we all want it rapidly." Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle tells Paddy O'Connell he wants to recognise the state of Palestine as he called the situation in Gaza "intolerable" #Newsnight
Jazz fusion didn’t get cooler than this — Herbie and the Headhunters in full stride.
I welcome this decision by President Macron. With unimaginable suffering in Gaza and no end in sight, now is the time for our government to do the same.
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
Fantastic news! I hope we will follow shortly 🙏🏻
🚨🚨Macron announces that France will recognize the State of Palestine during the UN General Assembly in NY in September
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?" Sarah Champion, "If we genuinely believe in a two state solution, and a way to get there, it cannot be negotiated with the occupied and the occupied" "For us saying yes we do recognise Palestine it is…
The 2.1 million people trapped in the war zone that is #Gaza are facing yet another killer on top of bombs and bullets: starvation. We demand full access to deliver aid. We demand the release of all hostages. We demand a ceasefire. We demand a political solution.