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This was the NEC’s ‘away’ day (though we don’t actually go away anywhere) which sets the party’s priorities for the year ahead. It was also the first meeting following the new composition of the committee so Peter Wheeler and Steve…
Leader's Report Ed Miliband gave us a sneak preview of some of the themes that would appear in his speech to conference next week. He spoke of the necessity to maintain our attack on the Coalition for their failure to address the economic…
This NEC meeting was preceded by a visit to the European Parliament on the 9th & 10th July (my report of that can be found here), a Shadow Cabinet/NEC reception the evening before to open the new HQ building and a meeting of the…
I detest factionalism, in all its forms. It would be an understatement to say that the war of words which has been taking place over recent days, prompted by the GMB's conference motion on the future of Progress within our party, pains me…
This was the first meeting of the NEC in the party’s lovely new offices in Brewer Street. The building is a really good space - self-contained and full of daylight. This was also the first meeting since the election of the new PLP Chair…
Imagine a world where, instead of standing outside your local train station handing out leaflets, wearing down the soles of your trainers talking to voters on the doorstep, or trudging to your nearest polling station, all you had to do to…
Our March NEC meeting was preceded the evening before with a meeting with the Parliamentary Labour Party where warm tributes were paid to Tony Lloyd MP at his last meeting as Chair of the PLP. Change at HQ: Iain McNicol reported on the…
Partnership Into Power/Policy Review Report; Peter Hain reported on the extended period of consultation on the reform of the Partnership Into Power process agreed as part of the Refounding Labour changes accepted by conference. That…
The NEC paid tribute to comrades, including George Baker, Tony Gardner, Gerald Southgate, Bert Karpin and Campbell Christie, who had passed away since our last meeting. New members Jennie Formby, Susan Lewis, Conor McGinn, Wendy Nicols and…
Donald Dewar presided over the creation of our Scottish Parliament and he was so proud of it – I will always remember the joy he had on July 1st 1999 at seeing it finally come to fruition. So it was both poignant and appropriate that the…
By Johanna Baxter / @johannabaxter Refounding Labour has been the largest consultation exercise our party has ever conducted. The decisions made at today's meeting of our NEC were historic - if approved at conference they will constitute…
By Johanna Baxter / @johannabaxter What a week the past 7 days have been. Your CLP reps on the NEC met with Ed Miliband on Wednesday evening to discuss the progress of Refounding Labour. At that meeting we discussed many of the reform…
