Template motion from “Protect the Harvest”
Friends of Standing Together has sent us this template motion. If you want to adapt it for your CLP as the CLP’s motion to Labour Party conference, you will have to cut at least 22 words from it, since it has 272 words and the maximum wordcount, by rule, is 250 words. You may also…
Keep readingDisappointing results for Labour NEC
The results for the CLP seats on Labour’s NEC are disappointing, with two seats won by CLPD-Momentum, two by Mainstream, but the other five by the right wing. Cat Arnold (Mainstream) – elected Stage 1 Jess Barnard (CLGA) – elected Stage 2 Angela Davies (Labour to Win) – elected Stage 3 Gemma Bolton (CLGA) –…
Keep readingDraft “references back” which CLPs may adapt or submit for Labour conference 2026
Each CLP can submit for conference (deadline 17/9/26) up to four references back of passages from the National Policy Forum report. This gives much wider openings than the previous regime, under which the NPF report could only be approved as a whole or rejected as a whole (and the unions would always vote through approval).…
Keep readingDraft “contemporary-ised” housing motion for Labour conference 2026
The text below is based on the Labour Campaign for Council Housing template motion, but with added reference to more “contemporary” developments to improve chances of not being ruled out of order as failing to be a “contemporary motion”. The text is 229 words, which gives you 21 words leeway within the 250-word limit on…
Keep reading“Protect the Harvest” (West Bank) template motion
Template motion in support of the campaign to protect the (olive) harvest in the West Bank. This branch notes: 1) 157 states around the world, including the UK, recognise the State of Palestine. 2) Israel currently militarily occupies the West Bank, which makes up 94% of the territory of the State of Palestine. 3) As…
Keep readingVote in the Labour NEC elections
Voting for the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee closes on 27 August 2026. We are urging readers of this blog to vote for the candidates who are supporting the ‘Reset the Labour Party’ statement – these are the candidates of the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) and Mainstream: CLGA: Gemma Bolton Jess Barnard Yasmin Dar Mainstream:…
Keep readingLLI bulletin July-August 2026: London Regional Conference, and more
Download on pdf, or read below. For answers, look to Party democracy! Andy Burnham is now leader of the Labour Party. It is good that Starmer had been replaced. It is good that in replacing him Burnham has implicitly disavowed his own past in the Blair government, and has apologised for the party’s weaknesses on…
Keep readingRule changes at 2026 conference?
Under current rules, rule-changes submitted by CLPs come up for consideration the year after they are submitted. So in September 2026 conference should be considering rule changes submitted by CLPs in or around June 2025. However, we don’t know – and on our asking-round so far, we’ve found no-one who does know – which those…
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