The Conference Arrangements Committee report one lists well over 100 organisations – CLPs, affiliated socialist societies, Young Labour and others – that had their motions ruled out.
Members don’t know what those motions were, or even what they were about, because the CAC refuses to publish that information.
These are just the ones we know about:
Public Ownership of Water
Submitted by more than a dozen CLPs, we think, circulated by Mainstream, SERA, and LLI
(See text below)
An NHS that passes the Makerfield Test
Submitted by the Socialist Health Association
https://sochealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/sha-cm-lpc-makerfield-test-.pdf
Council Housing
Submitted by around a dozen CLPs, we think, circulated by LCCH and LLI
The Government must terminate Palantir’s NHS contract (emergency motion)
Submitted by the Socialist Health Association
https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/149/560/original/sha-em-lpc-2026.pdf
Cash for Influence (rule change)
Submitted by the Socialist Health Association
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Public Ownership of Water
Conference notes the major Environment Agency report published on 6th August showing that no river or waterway in England is free of toxic chemicals, and that the percentage of English rivers with ‘good ecological status’ has decreased to 14.3%, despite the legal target being 77%.
Conference further notes that the privatisation of water has directly resulted in elevated costs for working people, as evidenced by research from Common Wealth, the University of Greenwich and UNISON respectively. It has also led to increasing levels of pollution in rivers and coastal waters, damaging our environment, wildlife and creating serious risks to human health.
Conference further notes that 82% of the public support public ownership of water, according to YouGov.
Conference believes that England’s system of privatised water is a national scandal and one of the clearest examples of the Thatcherite neoliberal policies harming people and planet that this Government is working to end.
Conference further believes that building a new economic settlerment that can provide affordability, good growth, ecological resilience and accountability requires a rolling back of privatisation of essential services like water, and direct public investment, provision, ownership and coordination.
Conference further believes that the Government should take action to reverse the privatisation of water in England as the first step toward ending neoliberalism and building a new economy with tangible benefits felt in every community.
Conference calls on the Government to urgently return water in England into public ownership.
