Response to Ed Miliband on Libya and migration
Responding to Ed Miliband’s speech on migration and “failures of post-conflict planning” in Libya, Left Unity’s Salman Shaheen said:
“The migrant crisis we are seeing now is a direct result of military intervention in Libya, which Ed Miliband supported.
“He is the latest Labour leader to have backed a war with little regard for the tragic long-term consequences. Miliband needs to display some of the humility he did over Iraq and admit that he was wrong.
“Britain needs to accept that it cannot police the world – and when it tries to, it makes things far worse.
“If Britain wants to make the world a better place, it can start by offering a home to those whose country our government helped destroy.”
Salman Shaheen is available for interview. Contact press@leftunity.org
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Left Unity is the new party of the left in Britain. Co-founded by Ken Loach in 2013, it now has around 2,000 members.
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