Regular visitors may have read here that the Labour Party is piloting a revised and truncated procedure for the selection of prospective parliamentary candidates. This has been operated in 26 seats identified by Labour’s national executive as ‘early bird’ marginals. The executive’s Organisation Committee has undertaken to properly review this pilot lot this year in time [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NEC’
Give us back a fair process for choosing Labour parliamentary candidates
Jan 24th, 2012 by Peter Willsman.
Support centre-left candidates for Labour’s national executive
Jan 9th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) is today writing to all constituency parties and supporters calling for nominations of six candidates for the six constituency party places on Labour’s National Executive (download leaflet here). The deadline for nominations is Friday 30 March 2012 and the all-member postal ballot will take place in May and June. [...]
Update on Labour’s national executive
Dec 6th, 2011 by Ann Black.Several subcommittees and working groups have met since the NEC awayday in November, and some notes are below. Refounding Labour to Win Peter Hain chaired the first meeting of the implementation group, and emphasised the importance of moving fast on registered supporters. Unless we reached 50,000 by conference 2012, the project would be seen as [...]
Report of Labour’s November executive
Nov 13th, 2011 by Ann Black.NEC Meeting, Tuesday 1 November 2011 The meeting after conference is always a marathon, reviewing the state of the party and planning the year ahead. First up was Tom Watson, deputy party Chair and campaign co-ordinator, praised for his tactics in the famous Hodge Hill by-election. Tom saw his role as mobilising members, consulting on [...]
Report of Labour’s September executive and of conference
Oct 10th, 2011 by Ann Black.NEC Meeting, Tuesday 20 September 2011 The NEC opened by expressing sympathy for the families of the miners who died in Neath, and Peter Hain reported that contributions to the appeal fund had reached £60,000 within hours. This was the last regular meeting before conference, and Ed Miliband stressed that the focus must be outward, [...]
Ed and the mystery of unpublished Refounding Labour submissions
Aug 3rd, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.Come on. It’s the silly season. How many Labour Party members does it take to publish what they think? More than are currently paid up. On present showing, Labour can’t afford openness and transparency, it’s still paying off its debts. Oh, how Ed must yearn for the days of “Tony wants”, and “Gordon says”. Remember [...]
NEC member fears a pre-Conference fix
Jul 26th, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.Labour Party members are to be denied sight of rule changes arising from the Refounding Labour consultation triggered by Ed Miliband’s election ten months ago. According to veteran constituency representative on the ruling national executive committee, Ann Black, any rule changes to be put to party conference will not be decided until the executive’s next meeting [...]
Report of Labour’s July national executive
Jul 25th, 2011 by Ann Black.Tuesday 19 July was a dramatic day in parliament, with Tom Watson questioning the Murdochs and Keith Vaz chairing interviews with senior police officers. Across the committee corridor the NEC meeting was quieter but equally tense as we chose Iain McNicol for Labour’s next general secretary, the sixth appointment in 11 years, after Ray Collins’ [...]
Labour General Secretary: who voted which way?
Jul 20th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.It’s been a long time since votes on Labour’s national executive were recorded. Although all members of the executive are representatives of someone, they prefer to vote in secret. They don’t get away with it in parliament and we may not agree with the practice, but don’t expect it to change anytime soon. But since [...]
Iain McNicol’s in-tray: Pandora’s Box
Jul 20th, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.I welcome Iain McNicol’s election as the Labour Party’s next General Secretary. I would not describe him as a buddy, or close personal friend. Iain is a comrade. And I would like to share two experiences that highlight why. I first met him in my capacity as chair of Save the Labour Party in 20045 while [...]
