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Outspoken Labour backbencher Clare Short talks to Steve Richards about her childhood memories of growing up in the poor areas of Birmingham and her time at Catholic school. Was the feisty politician always a bit of a rebel even as a child? And how did she interact with her teachers and fellow pupils? The Labour MP also reflects on her relationship with Catholicism, both as a teenager and today, and how it has formed her views on sex education and the existence of God. She also discusses the impact of the political household she grew up in and, looking back, wonders whether she has lived something of a Labour fairy-tale.

3) The EITI is a coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organisations. 36 countries are currently implementing the EITI standard [http://www.eiti.org/countries ], and recognised as either EITI Candidate or EITI Compliant. In October 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would implement the EITI, and Australia committed to pilot the EITI. \"The EITI Global Conference in Sydney in May 2013 will be another milestone in the evolution of the EITI. With 36 countries now implementing the EITI, and the United States and several others preparing to do so, we are making strides in establishing the EITI as a global standard. Together we are taking steps towards ensuring that natural resource wealth leads to development.

The EITI is a coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organisations. 36 countries are currently implementing the EITI standard, and recognised as either EITI Candidate or EITI Compliant. In October 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would implement the EITI, and Australia committed to pilot the EITI. \"The EITI Global Conference in Sydney in May 2013 will be another milestone in the evolution of the EITI. With 36 countries now implementing the EITI, and the United States and several others preparing to do so, we are making strides in establishing the EITI as a global standard. Together we are taking steps towards ensuring that natural resource wealth leads to development.

Leaders from 60 nations are meeting this week in Brasilia for the first annual high-level summit of the OGP hosted by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. Countries in the OGP must present action plans with concrete commitments on open government. Last year, US President Obama pledged to implement the EITI, and Australia committed to implement an EITI pilot. In his speech, Ken Salazar, US Secretary of Interior, emphasised the importance of the EITI to make sure that people get a fair deal from oil companies. He challenged other developed countries to follow the example of the EITI countries.

Tuesday I'm reminded of principled stands when I drop into Portcullis House on the way back from a meeting. I'm there to thank Clare Short MP for her time - she's about to conduct a masterclass with three of our young campaign award winners.

\"And they all say, '[Clare Short]. Stop'. Everything was very fraught by then and they didn't want me arguing, and I was jeered at to be quiet. That's what happened. \"If he won't answer and then the prime minister's saying be quiet and that's it, no discussion, there's only so much you can do.\" Damning testimony: Clare Short leaves the Chilcot Inquiry; The Iraq War Inquiry has heard evidence from one of [Tony Blair]'s former Ministers, Clare Short. Ms Short says the Cabinet was misled about the legal advice used to justify going to war in Iraq.; Former British cabinet minister Clare Short has told the Iraq war inquiry that former Prime Minister Tony Blair stifled debate on the legality of the war.; A former British cabinet minister who resigned over the Iraq war says Tony Blair's cabinet was misled into thinking it was legal.

UUP Assemblyman Michael Copeland said it was incredible that a former British cabinet minister could make such \"offensive, ill-informed and insulting\" remarks, while the DUP's Arlene...

BIRMINGHAM is the \"bene-fits capital\" of the UK, according to new research. Figures revealed the city has a Pounds 2.7 billion Jobseeker's Allowance bill - double that of any other authority and only trailing Hull in terms of the per head figure. She said that the show was not representative because \"in a typical Ladywood street of 100 houses, 42 people would be living on the state pension, 15 would be sick and disabled, many of them also old, and those on Jobseeker's Allowance would be fewer than three.\" \"I fear some of the people featured played up to the cameras, thinking they'd at last found a little of the 'glamour' of so-called celebrity for which so many yearn. \"But more darkly it provided false justification for viewers to judge and sneer.