Labour MPs have voted today to back Ed Miliband in abolishing shadow cabinet elections, with 196 (76%, or 83% of those voting) in favour, 41 against and 20 not voting. Last September the same PLP had rejected the same proposal and, instead, voted to elect the Chief Whip for the first time (although in the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Party Conference’
The real test of Ed’s commitment to democracy is on reform of the wider party
Jul 5th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.
Labour party managers meet tomorrow – to fix or to facilitate?
Jun 14th, 2011 by Peter Kenyon.Ed Miliband’s leadership faces a key test tomorrow. It is unlikely to be reported in the conventional media. But it concerns preparations for forthcoming set piece events. A week on Saturday the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum meets in Wrexham. Three months later Annual Conference takes place in Liverpool. At the centre of a web […]
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Labour Left launches its vision of a new party structure
Mar 1st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s Centre Left today launched its vision of a new democratic structure for a twenty-first century Labour Party. Entitled A Living Breathing Party, words used by Ed Miliband launching his leadership campaign, the plan aims to turn into reality the Leader’s promises of giving members back their voice.
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What really matters about Labour Leadership elections?
Feb 17th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s review of its structure is right to include the way it elects its leader but public attention has so far been drawn to the wrong things. That’s happened because Ed’s recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother’s supporters, and some of Ed’s people see a need to spin away the […]
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Labour Democracy – real or imaginary?
Oct 7th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.All the leadership candidates argued that party members needed a great voice in party decision-making. Today, Pat McFadden (who may yet lose his shadow cabinet place and the chair of Labour’s national policy forum) asks for submissions from party members to what he calls “a review of our policy making process”. Have we been here […]
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Left loses places on Executive but gains 18+ on Policy Forum
Sep 26th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Although Ken Livingstone topped the poll in the national executive elections, the Left lost one place on the National Executive with a turnout of 70%, very much higher than usual. Oona King, benefitting from name recognition, came second and won a small consolation for losing the contest to be Labour’s candidate for London Mayor as well […]
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Constituency parties – Your chance to influence policy
Sep 14th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.After three years without the right to submit motions to conference, constituency parties have three more days to do so. The NEC is to allow votes this year on up to four motions from CLPs (chosen in a priorities ballot by CLP delegates) as they promised to do last year. Since the party rules have […]
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Party & Unions together – the way to win
Sep 3rd, 2010 by Billy Hayes.This year’s Annual Labour Party Conference should commence with the important step of restoring the right of CLPs and the affiliated trade unions to submit contemporary resolutions for voting at Conference. This may be modest, but it is significant. Conference should be the party’s internal, annual parliament, where we can debate all the key political […]
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Labour Conference 2010: another Nurenburg-style rally?
Jul 22nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Since the party leader will not be elected until the day before in a tight race, and their staff will be focused on winning, you might expect September’s Labour conference to be less “managed”, that is more interesting and relevant, than usual. All five candidates say they’re committed to making the party more democratic after […]
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Radical shake-up of Labour’s policy-making proposed
May 31st, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Suggested changes to the Labour Party Rulebook are being circulated to all Constituency Labour Parties this week which offer a radical shake up of Labour’s policy-making machinery. All the leadership candidates have to some extent recognised the need to revive the party membership, and understand that active campaigning wins votes but requires two-way communication and […]
