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Lisa Hanna

Lisa Hanna is a Jamaican MP and UN Development Programme goodwill ambassador

September 2022

  • A vendor reads a newspaper with coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph: Brian Inganga/AP

    Today in Focus
    Can the commonwealth survive the death of the queen?

  • The Nation Mourns The Death Of Queen Elizabeth II - Tuesday<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 13: Floral tributes left in memory of Queen Elizabeth II in Green Park on September 13, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Bruton Street, Mayfair, London on 21 April 1926. She married Prince Philip in 1947 and acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth on 6 February 1952 after the death of her Father, King George VI. Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8, 2022, and is succeeded by her eldest son, King Charles III. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

    The panel
    How is Queen Elizabeth’s death – and Britain – now seen from abroad? Our panel reports

    Agnès Poirier, Lisa Hanna, Lawrence Hill, Kevin Powell, Rukmini S and William Gumede

May 2022

  • Movement For Justice Protest Continuing Deportation Flights To Jamaica<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Protestors block Whitehall on February 10, 2020 in London, England. Protestors attend a demonstration called by the Movement For Justice outside Downing Street against the deportations to Jamaica by charter flights. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

    Who tears people away from their families and flies them halfway around the world? The UK government

    Lisa Hanna
    Do the time if you do the crime. But Jamaicans in Britain face the double punishment of deportation – that’s just cruel, asks Jamaican MP Lisa Hanna