The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy explains the process and recommends the candidates who will take the Party in a better direction.

This year our Party has elections to the CLP Sections of the following national committees:
National Policy Forum (NPF);
National Constitutional Committee (NCC);
National Women’s Committee (NWC); and
National Executive Committee (NEC).

Please try to ensure that your CLP considers nominating candidates that support the necessary change in direction that our Party needs to make.

CLP nominations

Candidates require nominations from CLPs. CLPs have to submit their nominations to the Party by 12 noon, Friday 26th June. Please find out when your CLP will be meeting to make the decision on who it will nominate. Plus, spread the word about who are the best candidates to nominate.

Becoming a delegate

The NCC and NPF are elected at Labour’s Annual Conference (27th to 30th September, Liverpool) and NWC at Labour Women’s Conference (26th September, Liverpool), therefore delegates to these conferences are needed that support the candidates below. Delegates need to be nominated by CLPs by 12 noon, Friday 26th June. Please find out when your CLP will be meeting to make the decision on whom it will send as delegates and consider putting yourself forward.

Recommended candidates

Details of the candidates that CLPD is supporting are in the attached documents (including their Party membership number and statements where we have them at present). Please note that for the NPF your CLP can only nominate for the NPF nation/region your CLP is in.

Recommended candidates’ details:

National Policy Forum (NPF)
Candidates for your nation/region are detailed in the attached documents
MS Word file here     PDF file here

National Constitutional Committee (NCC)
Candidates:
Rachel Garnham
Dave Levy
Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill
Harry Stratton
MS Word file here     PDF file here

National Women’s Committee (NWC)
Candidates:
Ann Henderson
Emine Ibrahim
Jean Crocker
Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill
Sandra Wyman
MS Word file here     PDF file here

National Executive Committee (NEC)
Candidates:
Gemma Bolton
Yasmine Dar
Minesh Parekh
MS Word file here     PDF file here
 

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National Executive Committee

The Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) is supporting candidates for our Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) who will champion real Labour values and oppose anti-democratic manoeuvres by the Party leadership.

After years of austerity, privatisation and inequality, our Labour Government has so far failed to introduce economic policies that can deliver the change communities are crying out for.

It is absolutely vital our Government succeeds and defeats the far-right at the next election, and that requires a change in direction.

For public services, redistribution of wealth and workers’ rights
For us to be successful in Government, we must revise our fiscal framework, introduce a wealth tax, take rail, energy, water, and mail into public ownership, reverse the creeping privatisation of our National Health Service and introduce a second Employment Rights Bill that goes beyond the current diluted version. We must address the disastrous impact of student fees and huge debts imposed.

For peace, defence of international law and against racism
The Government must be much bolder in supporting peace and justice internationally, and stand up to Trump’s belligerent agenda for US dominance. The government should act on last year’s overwhelming Labour Conference vote to suspend arms sales and trade with Israel and recognise the genocide in Gaza, as well as take the approach of the 2025 Trades Union Congress in prioritising wages not weapons by cancelling proposed increases to military spending. Instead of pandering to Reform, Labour must reverse its plans to attack migrant rights and make our asylum system even more draconian. Labour should not be attempting to out-Reform Reform and instead champion the contributions of migrants to society.

For a democratic Labour Party
The diverse views of our members and affiliates should be respected, and attacks on dissenting voices within the Party stopped. MPs should never have been disciplined for opposing welfare cuts and voting to scrap the two-child limit. Although those MPs were reinstated, Diane Abbott, Britain’s first black female MP, remains unjustly suspended, and threats to punish MPs for taking principled positions continues. To change course and rebuild support, the Labour Leadership needs to listen to its diverse membership, in particular by implementing democratic structures for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and Disabled Members, reinstating a 2-day Women’s Conference and valuing and strengthening our trade union link.

That’s why we need NEC representatives who will speak out on behalf of members: representatives who will stand up for democracy and local parties, oppose anti-democratic rule changes, and defend and advance the rights of members and affiliates in selections, internal elections and policy-making.

With the far-right on the rise, there’s no time to waste. It’s vital to elect NEC members who will fight for our Party to succeed.