NEW: The Labour Party is unveiling six 'first steps' for its missions, focused on:

💷economic stability
👩‍⚕️ Cutting waiting lists
👮 tackling 'criminal boat gangs'
🔋 Green cheaper energy
⚖️ Antisocial behaviour crackdown
🏫 6,500 new teachers

Details here

labourlist.org/2024/05/watch-…

New: Peter Mandelson says Labour's plans are 'genuinely a 10-year programme of national renewal”.

The party should not “pretend that this is about turning a dial or pressing a button or throwing a switch… it’s really long drawn out, complicated stuff”.

labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

🌹 New: Keir Starmer says next phase of The Labour Party campaign will be to 'give people back a belief in change'.

This AM he and colleagues will unveil 'first steps' for its missions.

Speeches promised - details (and livestream/liveblog later) here 🔽

labourlist.org/2024/05/watch-…

🌹 On Thursday AM Keir Starmer and shadow cabinet will unveil six The Labour Party 'first steps' for the party's missions.

Speeches due at an Essex launch event, plus an ad campaign as GE campaign ramps up.

Details (and livestream/liveblog later) here 🔽

labourlist.org/2024/05/watch-…

📢 NEW: Peter Mandelson says to counter Tory attack lines, Labour needs to “turn up the volume” in talking about its missions.

He was speaking at the Britain Renewed conference, by UCL Policy Lab The Future Governance Forum Citizens UK
and Power to Change at #UCLEast

labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

The selection race begins:

I will be applying for selection as Labour's candidate in Islington North. The scale of poverty in the borough, together with the acute crisis for private renters and the threats to local health services, mean Islington needs to be setting Labour's agenda in power.

I worked

'Why on earth must we be publicly to the right of Braverman, while warmly accepting MPs who voted for schoolchildren to go hungry just four years ago?'

Alex Charilaou on the significance of Suella Braverman calling for the abolition of the two-child cap: labourlist.org/2024/05/suella…

Next Sunday, we’re launching South West Young Labour with a campaign day for Claire Hazelgrove in Filton and Bradley Stoke

Come along for some canvassing and a social after in this key marginal seat!

events.labour.org.uk/event/432320

Labour leads by 25% in the Red Wall.

Lowest Conservative % with Sunak as PM.

Red Wall VI (11-12 May):

Labour 47% (+3)
Conservative 22% (-2)
Reform UK 16% (-2)
Lib Dem 7% (+1)
Green 5% (–)
Plaid Cymru 1% (–)
Other 1% (-1)

Changes +/- 13-14 April

redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-red-wal…

NEW: A Labour spokesperson says it is “right” for Anneliese Dodds to meet “with a whole range of organisations” in her role as Shadow Equalities Secretary, following criticism by LGBT+ Labour of her decision to meet with the LGB Alliance group: 👇 labourlist.org/2024/05/lgbt-l…

🏘️'We recognise that the crisis in the private rented sector can only be solved by a holistic approach to fixing all parts of the housing market.'

Read more from the Labour-commissioned review of the private rented sector, which is being launched today: labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

🏘️A Labour-commissioned review of the private rented sector that recommended reforms including the creation of a National Landlords Register and the use of “rent stabilisation” measures will be launched today.

Read more about the report here: labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

'Why on earth must we be publicly to the right of Braverman, while warmly accepting MPs who voted for schoolchildren to go hungry just four years ago?'

Alex Charilaou on the significance of Suella Braverman calling for the abolition of the two-child cap: labourlist.org/2024/05/suella…

🏘️NEW: A Labour-commissioned review of the private rented sector sets out recommendations including the creation of a National Landlords Register to enforce standards, abolishing no-fault evictions and the use of 'rent stabilisation' measures: 👇 labourlist.org/2024/05/labour…

Our latest research for our general election partners The Telegraph suggests that - amid new defection speculation - only 26% of Labour voters say Starmer was wrong to invite Ms Elphicke into the party.

Nearly half (46%) say he was right to do so.

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…