For the second consecutive year, Lord Alf Dubs, spoke this month to a group of schoolchildren about antisemitism and Holocaust memorial. The former Northern Ireland minister, recounted his own story of arriving on the Kindertransport from Prague when he was just six.
The children asked some great questions and impressed Lord Dubs with their knowledge of the subject. They also saw the plaque in the Palace of Westminster which records the rescued children’s thanks to Britain.
The chair of the APPG Against Antisemitism, John Mann MP has commissioned a Parliamentary Inquiry into Electoral Conduct. The purpose of the inquiry is to investigate and evaluate the effectives of existing lines of responsibility and accountability in managing elections and, specifically, charges of misconduct during elections with a particular focus on racism and discrimination. [...]
Read more...This is a cross-post from the Huffington Post by John Mann MP: In 2006, a cross-party group of MPs reported on their Inquiry into anti-semitism which I had commissioned. That report featured 35 recommendations for government, parliament and civil society. A great number of those recommendations have been successfully actioned, but one in particular has [...]
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