MP to give 2017 Swarthmore Lecture
Catherine West MP will deliver the 2017 Swarthmore Lecture
The 2017 Swarthmore Lecture is to be given by Catherine West, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green.
The lecture will focus on addressing inequality, tackling poverty and promoting social justice. It will examine how change can be effected through politics – both participatory and representative – while ‘living out our faith in the world’.
Catherine West said: ‘For me, actively advancing the cause of equality is both a political imperative and a spiritual vocation.’
Catherine became a Quaker in the 1990s and is a member of North West London Area Meeting. She was elected as Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green in May 2015. She was a member of Islington Council from 2002 to 2014 and leader from 2010 to 2013.
While leader, she set up the country’s first Fairness Commission, chaired by Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level, the bestselling book, which argues that inequality is bad for everyone. The commission was a year-long listening exercise, held in one of Britain’s most unequal communities.
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