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Grassroots Labour supporters are in high spirits, if this week's LabourList survey is anything to go by. We asked readers if they liked what they had heard about last weekend's National Policy Forum (NPF) conference in Milton Keynes - and…
Labour held its final major National Policy Forum (NPF) meeting at the weekend to finalise positions on a whole swathe of of policy areas. LabourList covered it in depth - not only did we run a comprehensive liveblog all weekend and have…
Universal healthy free school meals is a policy that has been pioneered by Labour and by Labour councils in Southwark, Hull, Newham, Islington and Durham. At the National Policy Forum (NPF) over the weekend, Labour’s policy for the General…
Something amazing has happened to the Labour Party and we have all grown so accustomed to it already that we take it for granted and don't even comment about it. The amazing occurrence is the sustained achievement of party unity, not just…
“What’s the point of the National Policy Forum?” A question I have been asked many times since I was elected to represent party members in my region on Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF). “Why would you want to join the National Powerless…
Four years ago, when I first joined the NPF, I didn't really know what to expect. I had heard stories of course. That is was a talking shop, a stitch up, an irrelevance. My first experiences were not good. First in Gillingham and then in…
The National Policy Forum have got a full plate today as they begin their final weekend of deliberations before signing off Labour’s policy documents ahead of the manifesto being agreed at national conference. Headline issues like rail…
Ed Miliband's speech to the National Policy Forum this morning was the media centrepiece of this weekend's activity in Milton Keynes. That of course belies the fact that amendment meetings taking place across this sprawling conference…
This weekend sees the final meeting of Labour's National Policy Forum. Here's the full text of Ed Miliband's speech: As we meet here at the National Policy Forum, many of our thoughts will also be rightly focussed on two crises overseas.And…
Ed Miliband will make a speech to Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF) in Milton Keynes today, setting out a "programme of Government" that would leave New Labour behind without going back to old Labour. He will say that his plan for power…
11.11: So the NPF is over, and delegates are heading home from Milton Keynes. So what kind of weekend has it been? Well as I wrote yesterday: "a pledge card for 2015 is beginning to take shape: a million homes a new deal on rail ownership a…
The National Policy Forum(NPF) meets this weekend in Milton keynes - here's NPF Chair Angela Eagle's opening speech, in which she invokes the spirit of 1945: It is a great honour to open this meeting of the National Policy Forum at such a…
