PEACE GROUP WELCOMES MILIBAND ADMISSION

Britain’s oldest and largest single issue peace group has welcomed the change in tone of Ed Miliband’s first speech as Labour leader, when moving away from trying to defend the Iraq war and being more critical of Israel.

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August 16, 2022

Britain’s oldest and largest single issue peace group has welcomed the change in tone of Ed Miliband’s first speech as Labour leader, when moving away from trying to defend the Iraq war and being more critical of Israel. “Ed Miliband’s speech shows that at long last the party is making a decisive move away from the aggressive pro-war policies pursued by New Labour” under former prime minister Tony Blair, said Kate Hudson, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). “He is not just reflecting on the mistakes of the past but willing to take forward a policy which truly does reflect a rejection of Blair’s subservience to the US,” Hudson said in response to his speech at Labour’s annual conference. In his keynote speech, Miliband said that Blair’s government was “wrong” to invade Iraq, making clear that the war should not have happened without clear United Nations backing, although he stopped short of the full apology demanded by some.