Defend The Link's model response to the Collins consultation can be downloaded here. Please use it as a basis for answering the questions set out in the document.
National Executive Committee 4 & 5 November 2013 by Ann Black
The Chair Angela Eagle welcomed members to the first meeting after conference, an opportunity to review our aims, objectives and strategies for the year ahead. Deputy leader Harriet Harman stressed…
The Hidden Agenda behind the Collins Review
By Barry Gray and Peter Willsman (CLPD) In his Interim Report on Labour’s union link (‘Building a One Nation Labour Party’), Ray Collins makes it clear that once a new…
On illegitimate interference by party staff into our internal elections
By Peter Willsman As Jon Lansman previously reported here, there is clear evidence that full time Labour party officials in most of the country (including Yorkshire, the East Midlands and…
On illegitimate interference by party staff into our internal elections
By Peter Willsman As Jon Lansman previously reported here, there is clear evidence that full time Labour party officials in most of the country (including Yorkshire, the East Midlands and…
Request for information
Labour conference delegates: appeal for information Those who have read the Yellow Pages delegates’ briefing (produced each day at Labour conference and available here) will have read that the oversight of Labour’s conference arrangements…
HOW LABOUR’S TRIGGER WORKS
A CLPD BRIEFING ON THE RE-SELECTION OF SITTING LABOUR MPS Labour’s ‘trigger’ system, part of the overall process that decides whether a sitting Member of Parliament stands again at the…
Conference 2013 Shenanigans
Why CAC election result is not safe It is with deep regret that we learned yesterday that the oversight of the CAC elections has fallen short of the "open, transparent…
Labour Conference 2013 – Daily Campaign Brieifngs
Below are links to the daily Campaign Briefings at Annual Conference 2013 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Report of the national executive committee (NEC) meeting held on 17 September 2013 Christine Shawcroft
The NEC before Conference is usually dominated by conference arrangements, arguing about constitutional amendments, and so on, but this meeting was overshadowed by the Collins review of party “reform”. Not…