Young Labour and Labour Students elections: Full left and pro-Starmer slates

Slates of candidates on both the left and pro-leadership wings of the party have been unveiled for elections to the Young Labour national committee and national Labour Students committee, which will take place in the spring.

‘Organise’ slates – endorsed by pro-Keir Starmer group Labour to Win – were released swiftly for both the Young Labour and Labour Students elections. The more left-wing ‘Socialist Future’ slate has also been announced since.

Open Labour subsequently announced that it was backing 17 candidates in the elections, including several candidates on the Organise and Socialist Future slates, with the endorsements decided by a vote of the Open Labour national committee.

The soft left group has also backed three candidates on neither slate: Anna Baxter for Labour Students chair, Samuel Barnes for Young Labour South West representative and Eloise Harris for Young Labour international officer.

Socialist Future-backed activists currently have a majority on both Young Labour and Labour Students committees, despite the wider decline of the left in internal elections in recent years.

Nominations for candidates for both committees opened on December 8th and will close on February 23rd. Ballots of Labour Party members who are eligible to take part in the elections will run from March 14th to April 5th.

The candidates included on each slate are:

Organise Young Labour slate

Chair: Jack Lubner (also backed by Open Labour)
International: Ryan Bogle
Under-18s: Jake Withers (also backed by Open Labour)
Wales: Jess Moultrie (also backed by Open Labour)
Scotland: Sol Cuthbertson (also backed by Open Labour)
Women’s: Bella Simpson
LGBT+: Sam Hackney (also backed by Open Labour)
BAME: Thripty Dutt
Disability: George Baldock
Eastern: Emma Scanlon
East Midlands: Ruby Simpson
London: Sudenaz Top
Northern: Jacob Cousens
North West: Lewis Hurst (also backed by Open Labour)
South East: Lundy Mackenzie
South West: Jake Bonetta
West Midlands: Maya Desai (also backed by Open Labour)
Yorkshire and the Humber: Lucy Hulme
Socialist societies: Jimmy Sergi

Socialist Future Young Labour slate

Chair: Alex Charilaou
BAME: Fabiha Askari
LGBT+: Chloe Brooks
Women’s: Chloe Field
Disability: George Bell
International: Jack Ballingham
Under-18s: Oliver Probert-Hill
London: Sarah Warsama
Northern: Josh Freestone
North West: Mo Suhail
East: Catherine Howells
East Midlands: Kat Harlow
South East: Eleanor Miller
South West: Reuben Lake
Scotland: George Taylor
Yorkshire and the Humber: Erin Yeardley-Monach

Organise Labour Students slate

Chair: Ruby Herbert
Secretary: Issy Waite
Vice-chair: Lewis Warner
Scotland: Vicky Paterson
Wales: Bethia Tucker
Women’s: Martha Dascombe
Disability: Theo Biddle (also backed by Open Labour)
LGBT+: Rudi Ellis-Jones
BAME: Mason Humberstone
Eastern: Kerem Mumyakmaz (also backed by Open Labour)
East Midlands: Ben Duffy
London: Bruno Dent
North West: Esme Barlow-Hall
Trans: Willow Parker
South East: Cai Parry (also backed by Open Labour)
South West: Carys Skingle
West Midlands: Yusuf Amin
Yorkshire and the Humber: Daniel Wilton (also backed by Open Labour)
Ordinary: Aaron McIntyre
Ordinary: Katie Truman
Ordinary: Jacob Sammon
Ordinary: Martin Barabas
Ordinary: Jess Hilton
Ordinary: Rachel Holland

Socialist Future Labour Students slate

Chair: Anya Wilkinson
Secretary: Imara Wright
Vice-chair: Zac Bates Fisher
Scotland: Lauren Harper
Wales: Maria Pollard
Women’s: Grace Lewis
Disability: Mads Wainman
LGBT+: Will Jones
BAME: Joe Boaden
Eastern: Sam Pyle
East Midlands: Alex Burt
London: Samuel Eastoe
North West: Erin Hall (also backed by Open Labour)
Trans: Meg Birchall (also backed by Open Labour)
South East: Conor Gray
South West: Scarlett Timlit
West Midlands: Jack Wareham
Yorkshire and the Humber: Ralph Noble
Ordinary: Vanisha Karna
Ordinary: Sohail Hussain (also backed by Open Labour)
Ordinary: Zach Hayward
Ordinary: Lizzie Nandra