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“What matters is the difference we make. Labour membership is now 250,000 strong. If we organise, mobilise and harness the potential of every single party member, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.” Tom Watson MP, Deputy Leader Candidate A STRONG VOICE FOR YOU

Inside: who am, what I want to achieve, and my pledges to you. Support for Tom

SUPPORT FOR TOM “I am overwhelmed by the backing I’ve received from so many MPs, MEPs and Constituency Labour Parties. I had no idea what TO BE DEPUTY LEADER the reaction would be when I announced my bid for the Deputy Leadership. I’m humbled and excited in equal measure. And very FROM ACROSS BRITAIN grateful for all the support I’ve received from across Britain.” Tom has won more support from MPs, MEPs and Constituency Labour Parties than any other Deputy Leadership candidate.

Constituency Labour Parties backing Tom Aberdeen Central // Airdrie and Shotts // Aldridge-Brownhills // Almond Valley // Alyn & Deeside // Amber Valley // Angus South // Argyll and Bute // Ashfield // Ashton-Under-Lyne // Ayr // Barnsley East // Bermondsey & Old Southwark // Berwick-Upon-Tweed // Bexleyheath & Crayford // // Birmingham Perry Barr // 174 67 9 Birmingham Yardley // // Blaenau Gwent // Blaydon // Blyth Valley // Bognor Regis & Littlehampton // North East // Bolton South East // Bracknell // Brent North // Brigg & Goole // East // Bromley & Chislehurst // Bromsgrove // Broxbourne // Burton // // Calder Valley // CLPs MPs MEPs Carmarthen East & Dinefwr // Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley // Carshalton & Wallington // Castle Point // Cheadle // Chingford & Woodford Green // Chippenham // Clackmannanshire and Dunblane // Clydebank and Milngavie // North West // Coventry South // Crewe & Nantwich // Cunninghame South // Dagenham & MPs backing Tom Rainham // North // Derby South // Dewsbury // North // Dudley South // Dundee City East // Dundee City West // Ealing, Southall // Easington // East Ham // Eastbourne // Eastwood // Edinburgh Northern // Dave Anderson MP // Jon Ashworth MP // MP // MP // Kevin Brennan MP // and Leith // Edmonton // Ellesmere Port & Neston // Elmet & Rothwell // Enfield, Southgate // Forest of Dean // MP // Richard Burden MP // MP // MP // Ronnie Campbell MP // // Glasgow Anniesland // Glasgow Pollok // Glasgow Provan // Glasgow Southside // Gloucester // MP // Neil Coyle MP // MP // MP // MP // Gower // Grantham & Stamford // Gravesham // Great Yarmouth // Halesowen & Rowley Regis // Halifax // Halton Jim Cunningham MP // MP // MP // Paul Farrelly MP // Rob Flello MP // // Hamilton, and Stonehouse // Harborough // Harrow East // // Havant // Hemsworth // MP // MP // MP // MP // MP // Hertford & Stortford // Hertsmere // Hornchurch & Upminster // Jarrow // Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley // Kingston Sue Hayman MP // Stephen Hepburn MP // Imran Hussain MP // MP // Helen Jones MP // Upon Hull North // Kingswood // East // Leeds North West // Leeds West // East // Leicester MP // MP // Emma Lewell-Buck MP // MP // Rebecca Long-Bailey MP // South // Leicester West // Lewisham, Deptford // Linlithgow // Makerfield // // Merthyr Tydfil & MP // MP // Khalid Mahmood MP // MP // Rob Marris MP // Rhymney // Mid Fife and Glenrothes // Midlothian North and Musselburgh // Morecambe & Lunesdale // Motherwell Chris Matheson MP // Stephen McCabe MP // Andy McDonald MP // Conor McGinn MP // Alan Meale MP // and Wishaw // Newcastle-Under-Lyme // Newport East // Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford // North East Fife // MP // MP // MP // MP // MP // North East // North // North // North Swindon // North West Hampshire // MP // MP // Geoffrey Robinson MP // MP // MP // North // Northampton South // North // Norwich South // Old Bexley & Sidcup // Oldham Paula Sheriff MP // MP // Ruth Smeeth MP // Jeff Smith MP // Nick Smith MP // MP West & Royton // Paisley // Pendle // Portsmouth South // Preston // Redditch // Renfrewshire South // // MP // MP // David Winnick MP // MP // MP // Val Vaz MP // Richmond Park // Romford // Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner // Saffron Walden // Salford & Eccles // Scarborough & Whitby // Scunthorpe // , Brightside & Hillsborough // Sittingbourne & Sheppey // Skipton & Ripon // MEPs backing Tom Sleaford & North Hykeham // Slough // South & East Thurrock // South // South Ribble // // Afzal Khan MEP // Claude Moraes MEP // David Martin MEP // Derek Vaughan MEP // Glenis Willmott MEP // South // South West Norfolk // Southport // St Austell & Newquay // St Helens North // Stockton North // Jude Kirton-Darling MEP // Neena Gill MEP // Richard Howitt MEP // Siôn Simon MEP // Stoke-on-Trent Central // Stoke-on-Trent South // Sunderland Central // Thirsk & Malton // Thornbury & Yate // // Wansbeck // Warley // Warrington North // Warwick & Leamington // Washington & Sunderland West // Wealden // West Bromwich East // West Ham // West Lancashire // North East // Affiliates backing Tom Wolverhampton South East // Wolverhampton South West // // Worsley & Eccles South // // // NUM // ASLEF // Socialist Health Association Wycombe // Wyre Forest // Yeovil //

2 Tom Watson 3 Support for Tom NORMA SAYS TOM IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR DEPUTY Photograph: Sean Michael Cllr Norma Stephenson OBE is a healthcare assistant and a former President of Unison. She is a serving Labour councillor in Stockton-on-Tees and a lifelong union activist. She was Chair of Labour’s national ruling executive, the NEC, and MESSAGE TO YOU Chair of Labour’s national women, race and equality committee. Norma has also known Tom for many years and she is backing his Deputy Leadership bid. FROM TOM That’s my mum in the picture opposite. She’s disabled now and finds it hard to speak, though that hardly seems to have dented her formidable ability to make her presence She said: “I have known Tom for many years and I think the She adds: “Tom is a thoughtful person who stands up for felt. job of Deputy Leader is perfect for him. He is open, honest what he believes in. He never changes, no matter who he and fearless. But he is supportive too. When I was chair of is talking to or what company he’s in. He loves spending I learned my Labour values from her, folding leaflets as a the National Executive Committee he was always on hand time with Labour party members but he is comfortable child round our kitchen table in Kidderminster. She taught to offer advice and I was extremely grateful to count him as around people from every background or walk of life. me that the measure of us all as individuals is how well we a friend as well as a colleague. I think that’s important and it shows that he is always true look after other people. And that the measures of a good to himself. There’s no-one I’d rather see as deputy.” society are fairness, equality and decency, at least as much as growth and prosperity. Norma says Tom reminds her of a senior Labour leader They choose to call that chaos: I say it’s the beginning who served the party for many years – former deputy Tom says: Those Labour values have never changed. They’re still of the fightback. A quarter of a million individual party Prime Minister . “Tom shares many of the “WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN OUR PARTY” what starkly divides us from the Tories, whose only calculus members collectively shaping the party’s destiny in this qualities John Prescott had in abundance. Like John, Tom of success is money, regardless of how it’s distributed. way is exactly the kind of people-powered politics that can would be loyal to our leader, whoever he or she is, and Labour is the party of heroes and heroines. Women have lead us back to Downing Street. Indeed, it is the only route. I’ve spent my life since that Kidderminster childhood offer them protection in difficult times as well as candid always played a pivotal role in our movement and we have fighting and campaigning to make those values real. For Whoever the new leader is, I will back them 100%. feedback when it’s required. That is something a deputy hundreds of female councillors who fight for Labour values me, that’s what politics is. It’s the process of translating our has to do with tact and diplomacy”. every day. But the truth is there aren’t enough of them. And if you extend me the privilege, I’d like to fortify our socialist beliefs into policy and law, making a difference in The number of Labour local government leaders who are leader as their deputy. It’s a job I think I have the skills and whatever way we can to people’s lives. And she says party members should vote for the person women is also far too low. I am determined to change that. the experience to do really well. This booklet explains why who they believe is the best person for the job, regardless We have dramatically increased the number of women That’s why I ended up taking on ’s and how. of their gender or age. “I know some people say we should MPs in our shadow cabinet and on the backbenches over over-mighty . It wasn’t something I ever have a woman deputy but the simple truth is I believe Tom the last decade. Now we must do the same at a local level. planned to do. But they thought they could inflict anything is the best candidate”, she says. “I’m pleased the majority they liked on anyone, and never face the consequences. of the leadership candidates for both positions are women. That’s why I’ve asked Gloria De Piero MP, our Shadow Justice and decency demanded that they didn’t. It shows how far we’ve come. I know Tom wants to look Minister for Women and Equalities, to chair a commission at changing the rules if he wins so that either the deputy into Labour’s local government base. It will make And now the Tory media tells us that Labour is in crisis, or the leader is a woman in the future. That is something because we’re having a huge-scale leadership election, in Tom Watson recommendations about how we increase the number Deputy Leader Candidate I support. But I will be voting for Tom and I hope other of female Labour councillors and it will set out the steps which every member’s vote counts equally, with a balanced women Labour members do the same”. we need to take to ensure they become the leaders and array of good candidates from across the political spectrum Deputy Leaders of the future. – and nobody knows who’s going to win.

4 Tom Watson 5 About Tom WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT TO ACHIEVE AS DEPUTY LEADER About Tom Tom’s experience

Tom’s first election was in 1974, and he’s worked in every general Deputy Party Chair and election since. Either as a staff member or MP, Tom has worked for Neil Campaign Co-ordinator Kinnock, John Smith, , , and . Defence and ‘I’ve always been a campaigner. I first as a campaigner. I’ve run by- Minister folded Labour Party leaflets in the elections all over the country – from family kitchen in Kidderminster at the Birmingham Hodge Hill to Ealing Treasury Whip age of seven and I’ve been involved in Southall. I’m a campaigner to the ten General Elections since then. core. It taught me a lot. Britain’s first Digital Minister I joined the party 33 years ago It taught me that we are stronger because I believed Labour would build when we stand together to fight Hacking scandal activist a fairer, kinder, more entrepreneurial against injustice, wherever it exists. It country – the sort of country we taught me that we are only as strong Exposed high level child all want to live in. I still believe that as the colleagues we work with and abuse cover-ups . I think I can help us do that. rely on. And it taught me that there That’s why I’m standing for Deputy is no such thing as a lost cause or a Established the All Party Leader. battle we can’t win. Parliamentary Group on Drones Before University I worked in That is a lesson I learned as a advertising, and for Save the Children. campaigner on the backbenches Made history by overturning My first job with the Labour Party too. I stood up to Rupert Murdoch the Tories’ surveillance law was as a trainee library assistant. As and the over in the High Court a student, I campaigned for reform phone-hacking and I used my of Labour’s youth section and moved campaigning experience to expose Trade union organiser the resolution to set up Young Labour child abuse cover-ups at the heart of in 1992, and was elected National the Establishment. MP since 2001 Chair of . I worked in Labour Party member the trade union movement until 2001, I think I can apply those skills to the when I was elected Labour MP for deputy’s role as we seek to rebuild. for 33 years West Bromwich East. We need energy and new ideas to revitalize the party and we need I was a Minister for Tony Blair and members to take a full and active role. I’ve worked at the very heart of Downing Street with Gordon Brown. The deputy’s job is to help the leader I was Deputy Chair of the Party in Parliament, in the media and in the and Campaign Co-ordinator for Ed party. I can do all of those things. I Miliband. But I also built a reputation hope you will give me your support.’ Tom aged 7 folding Labour leaflets very precisely!

6 Tom Watson 7 My plan for the Labour Party THE DEPUTY LEADER I WOULD BE

My pitch for the Deputy Leadership is I believe it’s what you do that matters not just I want to work with our trade union members I want to write an election battle plan that simple: fresh ideas, genuine honesty what you say. to rebuild our relationship with working people means we’ll win in 2020. That’s why before the last election I campaigned through workplace visits. The Labour Party has always been a movement and unparalleled campaign experience. in 109 constituencies. And since our defeat We need to listen to them in order to win again and but a movement without direction is meaningless. I’ve continued to travel the country, listening to the best way to do that is by talking to them at work. We need to get the details right – message, policy, I’m standing for Deputy Leader of the Labour candidates and organisers, members and trade finance and organisation all matter. Labour is strongest when it fights against Party because I want to use my experience to unionists. help our new Leader, whoever she or he is, to injustice. That’s why Labour needs a Deputy Leader with win in 2020. I strongly believe that we need to reform the Over the years I’ve been involved in some real campaigning clout. way we support our Councillors and candidates. battles. From taking on Rupert Murdoch over the We have a huge task ahead. We need to develop a We need to rebuild our party from the They should be viewed as assets to be cherished, phone-hacking scandal to exposing high-level fresh vision that connects will the millions of voters grassroots up. not a resource to be plundered. I want to make sure child abuse cover-ups amongst the powerful. who have left us since 2005. I want to be a Deputy Leader who is close to our Councillors get much more out of their membership Campaigning should be at the heart of everything The new leader will outline that vision but I think I members and Councillors because it is they who subscription to the Association of Labour Councillors. we do. will reconnect with the communities we need to win can help them to realise it. I want to oversee a digital revolution in the back. We’ve rebuilt our party before we can do it party. again. We need to use technology to build a deeper But I need your support and I hope I can earn it. relationship with voters and to make sure canvassing is not just about data collection.

8 Tom Watson 9 My pledges to you

MY PLEDGES TO YOU I’ve established a Commission to speak to I will spend at least one day a week on the Labour’s lost voters and I will continue to road talking to Councillors, members, Labour travel the UK to speak to Labour supporters supporters and voters who abandoned us at who voted UKIP in May. the last election in the places where we need I will lead a digital reveloution in our party. to win. Members should help shape the national I will meet regularly with faith-based debate. We should establish digital branches, organisations, charities, businesses and all focus on training our members and councillors trade unions. to use social media to consult, organise and I will ensure that women, BAME and other campaign. We need new tech to campaign on under-represented members have greater the doorstep and decide campaign priorities. representation at every level of our party. The party needs it’s own Chief Digital Officer. I will meet monthly with Labour MSPs and I will treat Councillors and candidates like AMs and set up a forum so Labour’s elected assets to be cherished rather than a resource Leaders and Deputy Leaders across the UK to be plundered. can meet with me regularly to develop a I will prioritise political and campaign training shared understanding of how we win in 2020. – because our future as a party depends on it. I will establish a bursary scheme for parliamentary candidates who don’t have the financial means to run for election.

10 Tom Watson 11 I will put members at the centre I WILL PUT MEMBERS AT THE CENTRE OF OUR PARTY Labour was founded as a movement led by its members. That’s something we should be proud of and your voices must be heard. I believe it’s the deputy’s job to act as a bridge between the leadership team and members around the country. We need to ensure there’s a constant dialogue between the people who work so tirelessly on the ground and the leader who will set out our vision for the future.

That’s why I pledge to spend at least one day a If I’m elected deputy I will establish a monthly local week on the road visiting members around the leaders forum that I will chair. It will enable our country if I’m elected deputy, seeking your views on leaders and Deputy Leaders to share ideas and what the leadership is doing right and talking to you experiences, compare campaigning techniques about where it needs improve. and provide detailed feedback on policies that are In the past the Labour leadership has been too proving popular. If we are to rebuild as a party we quick to issue instructions and too slow to listen to have to do so on the back of our local government concerns. But the days when Labour HQ or regional base. offices distributed diktats to be followed to the letter have to end. That approach is insulting to members I will: and councillors who know better than the leader does what works and what doesn’t in their areas. It Act as the bridge is outdated and ineffective. between the Leader and Creating a more responsive and agile party will be a the members who work priority for me if I am Deputy Leader. hard for our party. Our people were the first to grasp the scale of the misery and fear caused by the Bedroom Tax Build a party machine because they witnessed the damage it was doing at that serves members; local level. not members We were right to oppose it but I believe we would subjugated to the party have done so earlier had the leadership been more machine. attuned to the warnings of our members. Our fight Always champion those against the Bedroom Tax might have been more effective as a result. people who give up so much time to fight for That’s why I want our Councillors, in particular, to be our movement. viewed as a vital source of advice and ideas.

12 Tom Watson 13 A digital revolution I WILL LEAD A DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN THE PARTY I want to lead a digital revolution in our party, allowing members a much greater say in shaping the national debate.

We must work out what membership means in a Yet to completely overhaul what we do requires the digital age. I know it means members talking to party to appoint a Chief Digital Officer. Someone each other, not just being broadcast to by party HQ. with the authority to challenge the silos in the party I know it means members instigating, contributing to and the experience to transform the technology and and leading the formulation of policy, not just being rebuild the party organisation around the needs of asked to comment or ‘consult’. I know it means our members. doing more to understand the skills our members And we need to bring digital skills into the party with have, and finding out how to engage them in a small team of developers, designers and product specific tasks relevant to their skills. managers to build our own expertise – reinventing I was the first Digital Engagement Minister when I Labour as a party for the digital age is far too served under Gordon Brown at the Cabinet Office important to outsource. Development, design and and I worked hard to convince the civil service digital are as important to our future as organising, that digital technology could be used to make campaigning and policy. Government more efficient and transparent. I’d like to apply some of those lessons to Labour if I’m elected. There are some obvious steps we could take to help our activists, starting by replacing the clipboard and soggy paper we see so often on canvassing sessions with an app that allows us to collect doorstep data quickly and efficiently. As an MP I want to get a text message every time someone joins my local party so I can thank them for joining our movement.

I will be a strong voice for members: you will always be at the centre of our organisation. Young members from all over the country use web conference technology to chat to Tom and each other.

14 Tom Watson 15 I will hold the Tories to account I WILL HOLD THE

TORIES TO ACCOUNT AP/Press Association Images You can still change the country from opposition. I know that because I’ve done it.

The campaigns that led to the into press ethics and the Goddard Inquiry into child abuse, were waged in opposition. So was the High Court victory won against the Tories’ surveillance law in July. It made legal history as the first time MPs had challenged government Read all about it legislation in court. People warned me against trying to take on Rupert Murdoch and the News of the As a party we will need to oppose the Tories at every turn using all the means at our disposal over the World. To be honest there were times when I wondered if I should have listened to next five years. I want to be a deputy who takes the them. His executives in hired private investigators to follow me. fight to the Tories. But the truth is it didn’t matter how I felt because MPs forced Rupert Murdoch to come before I can help us do that because I have the skills and there was something far bigger at stake. Hundreds Parliament for the first time to answer questions the knowledge to hold the Government to account. of innocent people – most of them ordinary about all this. He called it the most humble day of It requires hard work and attention to detail when members of the public – were treated appallingly by his life. But what mattered most was securing justice scrutinising legislation and government papers and the News of the World. They had their mobile phones for the people who were targeted by the News of using Parliamentary questions wisely. But it also hacked, their privacy was invaded, and many were the World and getting a judge-led inquiry into the means handling yourself well at the despatch box harassed by the paper’s staff. And for years their conduct of the press that made recommendations and knowing what to ask and who to question on executives denied wrongdoing to Parliament and the about how newspapers should be regulated. Parliamentary committees. police. The Leveson Inquiry, which lasted eight months, I also thought it was wrong that so many politicians, said that job should be done by a new body with

Spying on citizens has to stop including some senior members of the Labour more powers. hasn’t passed the We challenged the Tories and we won government, had developed such strong ties with laws that would make that possible but Labour said Even in opposition we can act to stop bad laws being case in early July this year in a landmark ruling. The the Murdoch empire. Professional relationships in its last manifesto we would legislate to bring it made. The Government passed new legislation in Government will now have to rewrite the legislation had become close friendships. Labour was too into existence. I still support that aim. We are lucky July last year that allows the police to seize emails and put it back before Parliament as a result. I close to powerful media executives who wielded in this country to have world-beating journalism but and phone metadata without a warrant from a don’t agree with everything David Davis says but I too much influence over our decision making. Most every industry needs rules to work by. importantly, some journalists and editors weren’t judge. It means requests from the police or the was willing to work with him on this to prevent the The Labour party should never be afraid to take on playing by the rules and they thought they could get security services to see personal information can Government from abusing its powers. powerful vested interests wherever they exist. The away with it. They thought they were above the law be approved by a politician rather than by a Judge. best way to do that is by being in power but we can I will speak up for those who don’t have a voice. and they were abusing their power. Former editor MPs didn’t properly debate or amend the new law do that from opposition as well as in government. It’s not good enough to just say we stand for justice; was even hired by David Cameron to because it was rushed through in one day but I I believe we need a deputy with campaigning clout we have to fight against injustice. run the Conservative party’s press operation despite think Parliament should be allowed to do its job. So so we can demonstrate to voters, day in day out, resigning over . I challenged the law – called DRIPA – in the High exactly what the Labour Party stands for. Court alongside Tory MP David Davis. We won our

16 Tom Watson 17 Exposing child abuse

The work goes on Ian Pace, Campaigner, Musician, Lecturer The challenge is huge. As Deputy Leader I intend WE NEED TO to keep my foot on the accelerator. “Tom really took an interest like I want to work to build a safe society for our few others. He listened and he understood the dangers. He has children to live and thrive in. pressed other MPs to recognise EXPOSE CHILD ABUSE I will continue to press for adequate resources for that attention needs to be given to the investigation of cases. how music education can open up an easy access route to abusers. I will be at the forefront in ensuring the Goddard But he has gone far beyond that COVER-UPS BY Inquiry I called for will be scrutinised and into pressing for so many abused my leadership will ensure that safeguarding people’s right to be heard.” vulnerable members of our communities will Ian Pace is an expert on abuse in the music education THE POWERFUL remain a priority. system and author of the ‘Desiring ’ blog

If the Labour party is to convince people we are still the party of justice we have Julie and Mrs JXS to actively campaign against injustice. There has been no greater injustice in (mothers of abused children) Don’t shred evidence, recent years than the actions of state agencies that suppressed criminal inquiries “Tom has done so much for those abused, and done into the powerful. judge warns ahead of so in a dignified manner. Being part of a group of women who have battled to change the way services Through the work of MPs, campaigners and child sex abuse inquiry have responded to the abuse of our children we owe investigative journalists we now know that serious Victims and supporters have Tom so much. He has been with us all the way. He crimes involving MPs were covered up. Only now, spent three years campaigning is a principled politician, not afraid to expose corrupt many years after they were committed, is evidence practices. He uses his position for the good of others emerging about the extent of those crimes. I have for justice 9.7.15 Tom said: and never for personal gain. Unlike the way he is heard some appalling testimony from survivors “This inquiry must meticulously track down sometimes portrayed by some, we have always found of child abuse. I believe the Labour Party must We have pressed for Intelligence files to be and analyse the evidence of failures not just him to be a gentle, considerate and honourable person. opened up His down to earth personality makes him approachable continue to press for answers about why these within public services, and the child protection to all those he represents.” crimes were kept hidden for so long. Been contacted by over 450 members of system but across all institutions whose failings the public including survivors of abuse and contributed directly to what we can now see is The survivors of child abuse serve a double sentence Barbara Hearn OBE campaigners an epidemic of abuse.” Former Deputy Chief Executive, National Children’s for the crimes committed against them; the pain Bureau of the original abuse is amplified by the terrible Met with adults who were abused as children knowledge that when they had the courage to speak and children that have experienced abuse, Tom Watson: “With Tom I met a few of the out no one listened and no one believed them. campaigners and child protection workers families whose children have been We need new police abused in the very recent past,

Passed evidence to the police while boarding away from home. Many of these children were in the care of the State. agency to tackle On one occasion Tom listened They were failed by the very people and institutions Exposed flaws in both public and private in astute silence to what had that were meant to keep them safe. That’s why I institutions where children and their families child abuse happened to a young teenager at a raised the issue in Parliament in 2012. should feel safe and secure boarding school. Much to my total astonishment he welled-up. Demanded the Prime Minister establish an Birmingham Post 23.6.15 Tom said: The work carried out by victims and campaigners overarching Inquiry Three years later and together we’re still working hard has since resulted in 15 police investigations and “The police privately tell me that they think on the ever growing strands of child sexual abuse and the government has set up an inquiry into historic Met with Minsters to tell them about risks to they would be more effective if specialists from what needs to be done to stamp out this appalling child abuse chaired by a New Zealand judge, Justice children, which lead to changes in the law different forces could be put together in a horror.” Lowell Goddard. By working together we have team to look at child abuse from a national achieved change perspective.”

18 Tom Watson 19 WHY WE’RE BACKING TOM WATSON… Uma Kumaran Ann Lucas Parliamentary candidate for Leader, Coventry City Council Harrow East “Tom’s a no-nonsense guy with a “As the local Parliamentary Candidate, lifetime of experience in the Labour Tom, was incredibly supportive movement: well able to give wise throughout the campaign. I know from counsel to our new Leader. He’s talking and listening to him that he has the ideas and got guts and integrity and is a campaigning experience to win back voters we lost in May, top campaigner. He gets local government and more he has even been to see us since to further understand importantly he wants to make sure the rest of the party and start the rebuilding towards 2020.” get it too. He is without a doubt my number 1 choice for Deputy Leader.” Harry Leslie Smith “Tom Watson is my choice for Deputy Len McCluskey Leader because Tom has both the General Secretary, head and heart to help steer Labour Unite the Union towards victory in the next election. “I’ve worked with Tom for many years Even in opposition Tom has held this now. He’s a Unite member and a true Tory Government’s feet to the fire and championed those friend to the Labour movement. He who’ve been most abused by austerity. Moreover Tom stood up to Murdoch when no one else will continue to provide real opposition against Cameron’s would. He’s fighting to get justice and uncover the truth attack on trade unionism. I know with Tom as Deputy about historic child abuse cover-ups by the powerful. And Leader Labour will have the force to combat and offer last month he made legal history by being one of the first a real and pragmatic alternative to this Conservative MPs to judicially review Tory primary legislation. He’s on Government.” our side. He’s got guts, integrity, ideas and the experience to be a great Deputy Leader.” Dennis Skinner MP for since 1970 , Actor “Tom is a great campaigner. He ”I saw at first hand what a brave and proved this when he took on Murdoch formidable campaigner he is when and exposed his dirty dealings. He’s he took on the criminals working for got support right across the Labour Rupert Murdoch. He sees the big movement. He’s the person we need for picture, but also he’s a master of Deputy Leader.” tactics and forensic analysis. Tom is also thoughtful and decent. He’d get nowhere in show Eddie Izzard business. Would make an excellent deputy Prime Minister.” Actor, comedian, writer, political campaigner “In the general election Tom and I Harry Potter author JK Rowling visited 8 key seats together. I feel he has brought a little magic to has a very positive and real relationship Labour’s deputy-leadership with Labour members across Britain contest – by backing frontrunner and I feel he has the experience, drive and ideas to win. Tom Watson. I think he’ll make a great Deputy Leader.” The Mirror, 5 June 2015

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