Template motion on changing Labour leader

You may find this text useful to adapt for motions in CLPs and union branches.

We welcome the recognition by MPs that Labour needs a change of direction in government in order to deliver real improvements for working-class people and to win back political ground from the Greens and Reform.
We are concerned that changing leader by “coronation” sidelines the necessary debate in the whole labour movement on changing direction, and signals to voters a closed-off and control-freakish regime. The “coronation” of Gordon Brown in 2007 as new leader did not go well.
The biggest change needed now is to reopen Labour conference to real debate (fewer obstacles to CLPs getting issues onto the agenda, fewer motions ruled out of order without accountability, less manipulation of the priorities ballot) and for the Party leadership to respect conference debate and decisions.
We also need local Labour Parties to be allowed to choose their own parliamentary and council candidates unimpeded.
We welcome the call by the TUC for “wealth taxes on the richest… raising the vital revenues we need for our public services”.
We also welcome the call from Andrea Egan, general secretary of the big public services union Unison, has said that Unison “needs to see… massive public investment and everything brought back in-house. Major sectors back under national public ownership, not just publicly ‘controlled’ or regulated a bit more actively…
“Ending the attacks on migrants and protecting our hard-won freedoms. And… investing in our schools, hospitals, councils, transport, our communities”.
We call on the NEC and the Conference Arrangements Committee to allow real debate on these issues at 2026 conference.

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