Rushanara Ali is the Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, and is currently Shadow Minister for International Development. Click below to find out more.
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Bethnal Green and Bow MP Rushanara Ali has strongly questioned the Government’s response to pork DNA being found in halal meals served to students in London. In March, Rushanara wrote to the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, Rt Hon David Heath MP, calling on the Government to take “immediate steps to ensure high …
Read More →During the opening exchanges of the House of Commons debate on the Queen’s Speech, local MP Rushanara Ali warned the Prime Minister that he was failing to take any action to tackle the alarming increase in child poverty under his Government. Rushanara said: “According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, after the tax and benefit …
Read More →Last week, a report released by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network estimated that the number of people who died during the 2011 Somalia famine was much higher than initially anticipated at almost 260,000. Shadow Minister for International Development, Rushanara Ali, has urged the need for the UK …
Read More →Rushanara Ali MP, Shadow Minister for International Development, today called on companies such as Primark to take urgent action to address workers’ conditions and take responsibility for safety standards following the collapse of an eight storey building on the outskirts of Dakha, Bangladesh, in which over 200 hundred garment workers employed in factories that supplied …
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