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'''Luciana Berger''' is Labour/Co-operative MP for Liverpool Wavertree and shadow minister for energy and climate change. <ref> [http://www.lucianaberger.com/ Luciana Berger], acc Sept 2011 </ref> She was a member of the [[National Union of Students]] executive from which she resigned, in her words, 'because of a continued apathy within the National Union of Students to Jewish student suffering. In the words of a report distributed by NUS: "Anti-semitism is a very light sleeper indeed."<ref> Luciana Berger, [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1460339,00.html Why I had to resign] The ''Guardian Education'', 15 April 2005 </ref> Berger was also a member of the [[Union of Jewish Students]] and had campaigned for Muslim organisations [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]], [[Al Muhajiroun]] and the [[Muslim Public Affairs Committee]] to be banned from campus.<ref> NUS, [http://www.nusonline.co.uk/news/pressreleases/270231.aspx NUS representative addresses government committee on campus incitement] Press Release, undated, but prior to March 2005 when Berger resigned her position.</ref> | '''Luciana Berger''' is Labour/Co-operative MP for Liverpool Wavertree and shadow minister for energy and climate change. <ref> [http://www.lucianaberger.com/ Luciana Berger], acc Sept 2011 </ref> She was a member of the [[National Union of Students]] executive from which she resigned, in her words, 'because of a continued apathy within the National Union of Students to Jewish student suffering. In the words of a report distributed by NUS: "Anti-semitism is a very light sleeper indeed."<ref> Luciana Berger, [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1460339,00.html Why I had to resign] The ''Guardian Education'', 15 April 2005 </ref> Berger was also a member of the [[Union of Jewish Students]] and had campaigned for Muslim organisations [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]], [[Al Muhajiroun]] and the [[Muslim Public Affairs Committee]] to be banned from campus.<ref> NUS, [http://www.nusonline.co.uk/news/pressreleases/270231.aspx NUS representative addresses government committee on campus incitement] Press Release, undated, but prior to March 2005 when Berger resigned her position.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 16:25, 12 March 2015
Luciana Berger is Labour/Co-operative MP for Liverpool Wavertree and shadow minister for energy and climate change. [1] She was a member of the National Union of Students executive from which she resigned, in her words, 'because of a continued apathy within the National Union of Students to Jewish student suffering. In the words of a report distributed by NUS: "Anti-semitism is a very light sleeper indeed."[2] Berger was also a member of the Union of Jewish Students and had campaigned for Muslim organisations Hizb ut-Tahrir, Al Muhajiroun and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee to be banned from campus.[3]
Berger is a great-niece of the former Labour MP Emanuel Shinwell.[4]
Contents
Imagined connections with Euan and Tony Blair
David McKie writes:
- a Sunday Telegraph story on April 17 headed: "Labour should have fought back on immigration, says Euan Blair's girlfriend". This was based on an interview by deputy political editor Melissa Kite with a "strikingly beautiful" 23-year-old postgraduate London University student called Luciana Berger, who recently resigned from the executive of the National Union of Students accusing it of turning a blind eye to anti-semitism.
- In the interview, Ms Berger - repeatedly described, Melissa Kite contended, as a future Labour leader; she did not tell us by whom - was strongly critical of Labour's stance on immigration and condemned the party's portrayal of Michael Howard in election posters as Fagin and a flying pig. Though Melissa, unlike the headline writer, stopped short of describing Luciana as Euan's girlfriend, she said they had been "romantically linked". "Rumours of a close friendship with Euan Blair," she mused, "have elevated an admirable stand against anti-semitism from a campus dispute to the stuff of national debate."
McKie notes that he had:
- a feeling that if Luciana was not in fact Euan's girlfriend there wouldn't be very much left of the story. And sure enough, the following letter appeared in last Sunday's Telegraph. "You published a story headed 'Labour should have fought back on immigration, says Euan Blair's girlfriend', which described Luciana Berger as my girlfriend. Luciana Berger is not, and has never been, my girlfriend - Euan Blair, University of Bristol". [5] [6]
Affiliations
- Labour Friends of Israel - director
- National Union of Students - National Executive Committee member
External resources
- David Bartlett, Luciana Berger MP hits back over cash for questions allegations, 19 October 2012
Contact
Parliamentary
- Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
- Telephone: 020 7219 7102
- Fax: 020 7219 2770
- Email: luciana.berger.mp@parliament.uk
Constituency
- Address: UCATT Building, 56 Derwent Road East, Liverpool, L13 6QR
- Telephone: 0151 228 1628
- Fax: 0151 228 2519
- Email: luciana4wavertree@hotmail.co.uk
Notes
- ↑ Luciana Berger, acc Sept 2011
- ↑ Luciana Berger, Why I had to resign The Guardian Education, 15 April 2005
- ↑ NUS, NUS representative addresses government committee on campus incitement Press Release, undated, but prior to March 2005 when Berger resigned her position.
- ↑ Sarah Priddy, PIL: Current Members Related to Other Current or Former Members - Commons Library Standard Note, 13 September 2013.
- ↑ David McKie 'The spirit of Meilyr lives on' The Guardian Thursday May 5, 2005
- ↑ PAUL PALMER Luciana and an affair that wasn't, Evening Standard (London), Apr 21, 2005
