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John McDonnell has argued that the left of the Labour Party needs to mobilise to "save" an incoming Labour government "from itself", claiming that compassion was "in limited supply" at a meeting of the party's policymaking body over the…
Labour's national executive committee (NEC) met in Newcastle on Tuesday for an away day. The party faced criticism ahead of the meeting after controversial plans emerged for it to break with a commitment to establish democratic wings for…
Labour’s governing body will meet today. The party was criticised as plans – to abandon previously agreed commitments to form wings of the party for BAME and for disabled members – emerged last night. According to The Independent, the…
Labour has been criticised for plans to break with a previously agreed commitment to establish democratic wings for members from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic (BAME) background and for disabled members. Labour's national governing…
The Forde report makes for difficult reading about the impact of antisemitism, racism and factionalism within the party in the period between 2014 and 2019. The 137-page document included an incredibly telling comment from a former…
There are currently several positions up for grabs on Labour’s national executive committee (NEC), and Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) have started to nominate their preferred candidates in the contest due to end in August this year. The…
Anneliese Dodds has called on the government to "come clean" over manifesto pledge-breaking plans to reform disability benefits after Labour identified Budget proposals to cut £70m of planned spending over the next three years. Commenting…
As Emily Pomeroy-Smith entered one of the rooms in Brighton on the Sunday of Labour conference, she realised something was wrong: the wheelchair ramp to access the speaker stage was absent minutes before a Disability Labour discussion on…
Disabled people were promised a bold, transformative new national strategy – but what we got was far from it. In the Prime Minister’s own words, the national strategy for disabled people was supposed to be "the most ambitious endeavour on…
Labour's Vicky Foxcroft has criticised the government's new national strategy for disabled people published this morning, describing the plan as a "lacklustre effort with too much talking and not enough doing". Commenting on the proposals…
“My mum, she was incredible,” Labour Glasgow candidate Pam Duncan-Glancy tells me as we pause for a chat mid-canvassing. The rest of the group are now going up the tenements, which are not accessible for wheelchair-using campaigners…
In January 2019, I started a campaign for disabled Labour candidates to receive the same support as party staff during the Sheffield City Council elections. On October 7th last year, the national executive committee (NEC) finally received…
