Clare Short
✓ Source-basedstableBritish politician (born 1946)
Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003.
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Appearing on television discussion After Dark "Counting the Cost of a Free Press" in 1991 (3rd from R)
Short speaking at a rally in Birmingham in January 2009, urging the crowd "not forget the crimes being committed against the people of Gaza" following the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict
Political pamphlet by public artist Martin Firrell quoting Clare ShortIn their own words 3
It is ridiculous that British troops are here in Crossmaglen. The claim is that they're in Ireland keeping the peace between the two communities.
1983 comments quoted in Toby Harden Bandit Country The IRA and South Armagh (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999)
I should make it clear [...] that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe.
"Why Mugabe is deaf to the West" BBC News (15 April 2008)
They say 10,000, double, treble and then think of another number. It will be golden elephants next. They have got to stop this game. It is bad governance.
From an interview quoted in "Clare Short Blows her to over Volcano Isle" The Observer (24 August 1997), p. 1
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