by Charlie Spargo
Online car retailer Cazoo has appointed Luciana Berger - former MP for Liverpool Wavertree and current Managing Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs at Edelman UK - as Non-Executive Director.
Following the startup s merger with AJAX I which will see the company going public on the NYSE, Cazoo has appointed Berger to its board. As part of this, she will also become Chair of the organisation s Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Committee.
Berger was MP for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019, serving as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Shadow Minister for Public Health, Shadow Cabinet Member for Mental Health between 2010 and 2016. She left to form The Independent Group in 2019, before joining the Liberal Democrats and being appointed Shadow Spokesperson for Health, Social Care and Wellbeing.
Keir Starmer, the leader of the United Kingdom s Labour Party, delivers an Easter message on his Twitter account on April 2, 2021. | Keir Starmer/Twitter
Sir. Keir Starmer, leader of the U.K. s Labour Party, was forced to apologize for visiting a church on Good Friday that critics have attacked as being “anti-LGBT” for adhering to biblical sexual ethics.
In a since-deleted video, Starmer praised Jesus House for All the Nations on Friday as being a wonderful example of a church serving its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including acting as a vaccination center and running a food bank.
“I recently visited @JesusHouseUK to hear about their crucial work in the community,” Starmer announced in a tweet that has also been deleted. “Churches across the country have played such a vital role in the fight against the virus. I hope everyone has a good, restful and safe Easter weekend.”
Keir Starmer, the leader of the United Kingdom s Labour Party, delivers an Easter message on his Twitter account on April 2, 2021. | Keir Starmer/Twitter
Sir. Keir Starmer, leader of the U.K. s Labour Party, was forced to apologize for visiting a church on Good Friday that critics have attacked as being “anti-LGBT” for adhering to biblical sexual ethics.
In a since-deleted video, Starmer praised Jesus House for All the Nations on Friday as being a wonderful example of a church serving its community during the coronavirus pandemic, including acting as a vaccination center and running a food bank.
“I recently visited @JesusHouseUK to hear about their crucial work in the community,” Starmer announced in a tweet that has also been deleted. “Churches across the country have played such a vital role in the fight against the virus. I hope everyone has a good, restful and safe Easter weekend.”
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Keir Starmer. (Hugh Hastings/Getty)
The LGBT+ arm of the Labour Party demanded Monday afternoon (5 April) an apology from leader Keir Starmer for visiting an infamously anti-LGBT+ church.
LGBT+ Labour wrote in a statement that Starmer’s failure to apologise for his visit to Jesus House, a London-based church with a troubling track record on LGBT+ rights, has “damaged” its trust in his leadership.
The trip, the opposition’s office told LGBT+ Labour’s members, had not been properly “researched” – if it had, it “never” would have gone ahead, it is understood.
But as much as office officials stressed that Starmer’s support in LGBT+ rights is “unwavering”, a social media video of the visit has not been taken down – even when LGBT+ Labour gave them the time to do.