Thirty-eight candidates are jostling for seats on Labour’s national executive committee (NEC), with ballots opening in July. If May 7th delivers the wipeout the polls predict, these elections become the first internal mechanism through which members can pass judgement on Starmer’s leadership. Andy Burnham is watching with close interest…
The left is running three separate slates. Momentum’s Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance is standing on a platform that reads like a direct attack on Starmer, with suspending arms sales to Israel and a second Employment Rights Bill “that goes beyond the current diluted version” on the menu. A new group called ‘Restoration’, offering up five candidates, wants to “make Labour working class again”. Good luck with that.
The Burnhamite Mainstream is standing three candidates. That is eleven left-wing candidates splitting the vote across nine CLP seats, which in theory benefits the right-of-party Labour to Win slate running four.
Jonathan Ashworth has put his name forward after losing his seat in 2024. The race is on…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”