Peter with carol and Frank from the WDM

Millions left malnourished by bankers betting on food prices

Big investment banks are betting on the price of staple foods like wheat, maize and soya. This is causing food prices to rise and making people go hungry.

After a meeting with members of the Horsham group of the World Development Movement Sussex Euro MP Peter Skinner is supporting their campaign for tighter European regulation of food markets.

Banks and hedge funds are earning huge profits from betting on food prices in unregulated financial markets. This causes drastic price swings in staple foods such as wheat, maize and soy, making poor families around the world go hungry and Read the rest of this article »

To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Euro MP Peter Skinner attended a special ceremony in the European Parliament and pledged to ‘speak up and speak out’ against hatred.

27^th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, which marks an opportunity to remember and learn from the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is asking people to come together and challenge the language of hatred which still exists in society.

I am backing their pledge: Read the rest of this article »