BYM sets out demands for politicians in election season

Britain Yearly Meeting highlights key issues it believes politicians should focus on

by Rebecca Hardy 6th December 2019

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has drawn up a list of key issues that it believes politicians should focus on for their general election pledges. The key demands, drawn up by the Quaker Peace & Social Witness team, include: climate justice; criminal justice; migration; peace and disarmament; and civil discourse. The peace and disarmament priority particularly includes the need for the UK government to sign up to the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to stop what it calls the ‘UK’s profit-led complicity with the international weapons trade’.