‘A Moral Crusade or Nothing? The Labour Party, Overseas Aid and Questions of Morality’
- Location:
- Online event - Zoom
- Time:
- Wednesday 2 June 2021, 17:00–18:00
- Contact:
- Joshua Andrews
Professor Duncan Tanner
Annual Memorial Seminar
Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley - University of Southampton
This paper explores post-war Labour Party thinking, rhetoric and policies around overseas aid and development. From Wilson to Kinnock to Blair, it argues that morality and questions of principle are consistently centred in the party's approach to the developing world, but that these questions have often been omitted from discussions of Labour's political thought in this period. Taking the idea of the party as a 'moral crusade' seriously, the paper argues that aid and development is a space in which these questions around ethics and identity can be fruitfully explored.
Meeting ID: 932 4152 6998
Passcode: 482739