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As a stalwart ballot paper scribbler, I am proud to say I have never missed an election. Postal votes? Save the stamp! I will breezily skip down to the polling station for the sheer hell of it. Well, that’s not quite true. There is one set…
Young people from Chesterfield say that Labour should be proud - not sorry - of our record on education.
Like most people, I could do without losing a day’s pay. That’s why I voted ‘yes’ to strike action, because if the government get their way I stand to lose roughly a day’s pay every month to pay for a worse pension when it comes to (an even…
My Dad died in September aged 87. This Sunday will be my first Remembrance Sunday without him. I have always been a great believer in paying tribute to our veterans. This is, I think, due to my Dad who was as typical, and special, a soldier…
I was fresh out of university. The job market was flourishing under Labour. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I felt that the world was my oyster. I was hungry for a job in politics and I was determined not to be the last of my friends to…
It was fantastic to see over 150 young people attending the London Young Labour annual general meeting a couple of weeks ago. The turn out and the enthusiasm in the room demonstrated the appetite for progressive change in London. In six…
Last weekend was the official launch of my campaign. Setting out the best china and freshly baked cakes caused me to remember Sunday afternoons as a little boy at my nana's, when I drank tea from clinking china and stuffed myself with fancy…
I am writing to you today about the cuts to the youth services and youth workers in Oxfordshire and the UK. I am a young person from Banbury, Oxfordshire, and I want to tell you about my past and how it affected me and my social life, and…
All my life I wanted to work. I wanted to do something important. I did everything society told me I should. I worked hard, I went to college despite being told I'd never pass due to sickness absence. I went to uni despite being told by…
London Young Labour is and should be a wonderfully diverse organisation. As this year's volunteers have shown we are diverse in terms of gender, sexuality, race, faith and age, but importantly we are also a diverse organisation in terms of…
I am standing for Chair of London Young Labour because I want to see our members on the front line of next year's Mayoral election. If Labour is going to win, we need a youth movement out in force in every Borough, every school and every…
By Shelly Asquith / @ShellyAsquith Fresh back from conference, having had time to relax, reflect and set out our policies; it's back to school for Labour's Mayoral campaign. At the start of this new term, London Labour should be looking…
