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Claude Moraes

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Claude Moraes is a Labour MEP, representing London. He chairs the European parliament's civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee 

June 2018

  • Tommy Robinson supporters march in London on Saturday.

    double quotation markThe far right is organised and growing. Those Nazi salutes are serious

    Claude Moraes
    Tommy Robinson supporters are drawing strength from international movements, says Labour MEP Claude Moraes

February 2018

  • Graphic of man with binoculars peering through binary pattern

    double quotation markNew UK data protection rules are a cynical attack on immigrants

    Claude Moraes
    Non-nationals in the UK will lose data rights in a discriminatory move that worries the European parliament, says Claude Moraes, a Labour MEP

October 2017

  • European Parliament<br>epa06244192 Members of Parliament debate about the constitution, rule of law and fundamental rights in Spain in the light of the recent events surrounding the referendum in Catalonia, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 04 October 2017. EPA/PATRICK SEEGER

    double quotation markBrexit will be a betrayal of the UK’s fight for equality

    Claude Moraes
    Isolationism could undo our commitment to EU-wide anti-discrimination legislation, writes Labour MEP Claude Moraes

September 2017

  • Immigration minister Brandon Lewis

    double quotation markWill Brexit mean a return to the dark-age prejudices of 1970s immigration policies?

    Claude Moraes
    The leaked Home Office document has nothing to do with the EU – it’s a blueprint to restore regressive immigration policy, says Claude Moraes MEP, former director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

May 2011

  • Response
    double quotation markThe EU's border problems are not just down to the rise of the far right

    Claude Moraes
    Response: Borderless travel requires nations to agree on asylum, but they've failed to do so, says Claude Moraes

May 2009

  • liberty central
    double quotation markThe dangers of ethnic profiling

    Claude Moraes
    Claude Moraes: New stop and search figures starkly illustrate the risk of alienating communities carried by ethnic profiling
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