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Labour's national executive committee (NEC) often talks about how to increase diversity in local and national government. We talk about barriers that prevent more women, BAME, disabled and working class candidates from getting more involved…
Labour's national policy forum (NPF) will launch a consultation on eight policy topics tomorrow, May 20th. But the future of the NPF itself is uncertain, and we do not know what reforms to policy-making the new Labour leadership might want…
Whether rescuing crumbling public services from the ravages of austerity or mounting serious resistance to the global rise of the right and climate change, today’s challenges demand that we build a powerful, purposeful, dynamic movement…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. The Brexit debate in the Commons resumes today, following a month of delay during which almost nothing changed, except that the Article 50 clock ran down…
“Shadow ministers and policy advisers do not have a monopoly on wisdom, so they must interact with party members and supporters. By making policy together we make better policy.” - Jeremy Corbyn MP, June 2015 Under Jeremy Corbyn’s…
The November meeting of Labour’s NEC is usually an 'away day' and an opportunity for reflection on how the NEC operates, its terms of reference and objectives. Although there were some changes for the better last year, constituency…
With the culmination of the democracy review, this year’s conference is supposed to be about putting policy-making in the hands of party members. So why are Labour’s policy-making bodies ignoring members’ calls for proportional…
At its latest meeting on Tuesday, Labour's ruling body discussed an 83-page document outlining proposals for the party democracy review. The paper was sent to NEC members only the night before, so representatives on the committee are now…
If the leadership has anything to do with it, members of the Labour Party are not getting a say on Brexit - the biggest issue in a generation. I recently attended a National Policy Forum (NPF) consultation in Nottinghamshire. Unfortunately…
Ann Black writes for LabourList as the newly elected chair of the National Policy Forum. What is the National Policy Forum, and why does it matter? Good questions, and ones that 95 per cent of members cannot answer. Twenty years after its…
Today National Executive Committee member and former disputes panel chair Ann Black was elected as chair of Labour's National Policy Forum. Black won 100 votes, beating George McManus, who received 65, with a turnout of 83 per cent…
The Labour NEC met on 20th March. The main item of business was to elect a new general secretary. There were also updates about the 2018 local elections and the usual reports and agenda items. Thanking Iain McNicol Jeremy Corbyn and the NEC…
