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Johanna Baxter is a member of Labour's NEC. This is her personal account of the NEC meeting that took place on March 29th. NEC Sub-committees The NEC reviewed the work of its sub-committees. The main points arising were; - The recent…
By Ann Black NEC members were joined by colleagues from the joint policy committee, the conference arrangements committee and the national constitutional committee for an informal discussion with Peter Hain on his party reform project. He…
By Alan Scobbie / @alanscobbie Some people may groan at the idea of a retired student activist wading into the debate around young people and the Labour Party. However after reading on LabourList that "Young Labour as a national…
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand Recently there has been a lot of focus on individual players within the Labour Party. This is inevitable, and - as Mark's recent piece observed - leadership matters. I understand this - trust me, I wouldn't…
By Ann Black On the Monday NEC members joined the parliamentary Labour party for their weekly meeting, a first for most of us. Alan Johnson, after a widely praised commons performance, drew attention to his New Statesman article and his…
By Emma Hoddinott Saturday was the first meeting of the National Policy Forum since I was elected by party members in Yorkshire and Humber over the summer. The purpose of the day was to launch a new direction for our party in terms of party…
By Rob Marchant / @rob_marchant I wasn't at the Policy Forum on Saturday to see Ed Miliband's keynote speech. A shame, I would have liked to, and I ended up reading it and watching it on video (I'm sad like that). And the speech was…
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand Yesterday I attended my first ever National Policy Forum. I'm sure there were plenty there who have been old hands on the Forum who will have more to compare the day to, but my impression of the day was a…
"Thank you very much for that incredibly kind introduction and I suppose I should say to you welcome to the frozen south. Who says there is a North South divide when it comes to the weather? Thank you all for braving the elements to come…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Ed Miliband's speech to the National Policy Forum this morning was widely billed as moving the party "Beyond New Labour". However listening to the speech it's clear that Ed doesn't want us to junk the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Several reports, including one in the New Statesman today, suggest Labour may be heading for a collision course of disunity. But rabble-rousers, each with their own agenda, should hold fire: Ed Miliband's…
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand The Labour Party are in the long running process of reviewing it's Partnership into Power process, the way in which policy is decided by the party as a whole, by the National Policy Forum and by members. This…
