DOCSLIB.ORG

Constituency Report (October 2018) Labour Party Conference

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Constituency Report (October 2018) Labour Party Conference Constituency Report (October 2018) Labour Party Conference What a fantastic Labour Party Conference! It was wonderful to see passionate Party members from up and down the country coming together to exchange ideas, participate in festivities and the biggest exercise in party democracy in Europe. In my speech to Conference I spoke about the challenges and threats we face at home and on the world stage, and how it is up to the Labour Party to lead the country and the world in a different direction. This year marks 130 years since The Internationale was written, and 80 years since it was sung by the International Brigades fighting the forces of tyranny in fascist Spain. Yet those dangerous forces are on the rise again, with Neo-Nazis marching on the streets from Charlottesville to Chemnitz, being supported by right-wing populist parties and politicians. The growth of such movements is alarming in itself, but such extremist rhetoric being employed by the leaders of the United States, Hungary, and Austria, as well as many primary opposition parties, shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with the global order. Now more than ever, we must lead by example, and show the international community that there is another way. With Nia Griffith as Defence Secretary we would support our forces and defend ourselves and our allies, yet never again support illegal wars of intervention. With Kate Osamor as International Development Secretary we would become once more the keepers of our brothers and sisters all around the world, a duty charged to our Party by Nelson Mandela. With Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership we would pursue in earnest an end to conflict, a nuclear-free world, and Conference Engagements Saturday 22nd September Tuesday 25th September Spoke at Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital Spoke at International Breakfast Panel – 100 March Years of Women Getting the Vote National Women’s Conference Reception Bloomberg Brexit Lunch South East Regional Reception Interviewed by Matt Chorley at a Times Red Box event London Regional Reception Main Speech – “Security at Home and South West Regional Reception Abroad” Sunday 23rd September Regional Radio interviews Toured the Exhibition Stands Spoke at the Indian High Commission and Vigil for Peace in Yemen Labour Friends of India Reception Young Labour Rally Attended Labour Friends of Israel Reception & The Mirror Conference Party Thousand Club Welcome Reception Wednesday 26th September The World Transformed – International Section Spoke at Thousand Club Brunch Attended New Statesman Conference Heads of Mission Brunch Reception Monday 24th September Spoke at the International Policy Seminar Met Irish Ambassador Adrian O’Neill & MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin Spoke at Gibraltar Government Reception Irish Ambassador’s Conference Reception Bloomberg International and Business Reception East Midlands Reception Labour Friends of Palestine & Middle East Reception – Speaking Attended Sky Reception BBC Question Time On the 4th of October I appeared on BBC Question Time, where we debated the end of austerity, immigration and the rise of violent crime. I argued that Theresa May’s commitment to ending austerity does not reflect the reality of her government’s continued spending cuts which continue to devastate services in the country. This has had a direct effect on our ability to tackle violent crime. Cuts to police, schools and local authorities mean that people and services which would typically look out for and support vulnerable young people are increasingly disappearing. I am glad to hear the Tories begin to discuss knife crime as a public health issue, Speaking on Question Time, 4th Oct but the lack of investment in children’s mental health shows that they are not yet willing to act on their rhetoric. In StandingConversation up for with my Youngconstituent Fabians Shao Law Jiang Network On the 15th of October I participated in a Q&A event with the Young Fabians Law Network, which focused on the importance of international law for Labour Party foreign policy. One of my primary challenges as Shadow Foreign Secretary is holding the government to account over its actions towards countries, particularly allies, who violate international law. I spoke about how important it is for us to work with the UN to support the international rules based order, especially as it is increasingly under attack by the resurgence of chemical weapons, illegal annexations, and war-driven famines. As a member of the Security Council we have a duty to lead by example, and a Labour Government would take a much Meeting with the Brain Tumour Charity at Party greater role in pursuing peace. Conference, 23rd Sep Jamal Khashoggi In response to the disappearance and suspected murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, I wrote an article in The Guardian calling on this Tory government to hold Saudi Arabia to account. The evidence increasingly points to agents of the Saudi regime kidnapping, murdering, and dismembering the dissident journalist, yet the Foreign Secretary waited a full week before issuing a muted response on Twitter. This is just the latest case of the British government ignoring the violent and repressive actions of the Saudi government, all in the hope that they will give Britain a good trade deal after Brexit. Many high profile business leaders Channel 4 Interview on Jamal Khashoggi, and have pulled out of a Saudi investment forum being held 17th Oct later this month, but Trade Secretary Liam Fox tellingly has not. Foreign affairs and work in parliament Media appearances have included... 20th Sep— Met Kuwaiti Ambassador, H.E. Khaled Al-Duwaisan 21st Sep—Any Questions? BBC Radio 4 27th Sep—Attended Chinese Ambassador’s 23rd Sep—BBC Radio 5Live with Pienaar National Day Reception 25th Sep—Times Red Box live podcast with Matt 5th October—Norwegian Refugee Council’s Chorley Country Director for Venezuela 25th Sep— Regional radio media (Liverpool) 8th Oct—Lunch with French Ambassador, Jean- Pierre Jouyet, with Khalid Mahmood MP 4th Oct—BBC Question Time in Canary Wharf 8th Oct—Attended South Korean Ambassador’s 14th Oct—Andrew Marr Show National Day Reception 16th Oct—Sky News 9th Oct—Attended McCain Institute for 16th Oct—BBC News International Leadership Dinner, with vice President Joe Biden 17th Oct—Channel 4 News 10th Oct—APPG Armed Forces Army Welcome In the constituency and out campaigning Home Parade 22nd Sep—Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital 10th Oct—Gave a tour to a group of soldiers March 10th Oct—Reception for the President of Gabon, 29th Sep—National Campaign Day in Coatbridge, Ali Bongo Ondimba Glasgow 11th Oct—Met Investigatory Powers Commissioner Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, with Baroness Chakrabarti 13th Oct— Conversation: Women and Leadership with Lucy Hockings and Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark 15th Oct—Women of the Year Lunch and Awards 15th Oct—’In Conversation’ with Young Fabians Law Network 16th Oct— Mitzvah Day Parliamentary Drop In Showing a group of soldiers around Parliament, 10th Oct Campaigning in Coatbridge with Richard Leonard MSP and Hugh Gaffney MP, 29th Sep House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA [email protected] 020 7697 9307 (2-5pm on Mon, Tues, Thurs) .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 1 the Name of the Society Shall Be the Fabian Society
    RULES OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY 1 The name of the Society shall be the Fabian Society. 2 The Fabian Society consists of socialists. It therefore aims for a classless society, where a just distribution of wealth and power assures true equality of opportunity. It holds that society, through its democratic institutions, should determine the overall direction and distribution of economic activity, and seeks to promote where appropriate the social and co-operative ownership of economic resources. It argues for strong and accountable public institutions reflecting the values of public service to meet need. It believes in an active democracy, characterised by liberty, tolerance and respect for diversity. It aims at the implementation of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and seeks the creation of effective international institutions to uphold and promote world peace and sustainable development. It seeks to secure these ends by the methods of political democracy. The Society, believing in equal citizenship in the fullest sense, is open to persons, irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or creed, who commit themselves to its aims and purposes and undertake to promote its work. Its activities shall be the furtherance of socialism and the education of the public on socialist lines by the holding of meetings, lectures, discussion groups and conferences, the promotion of research into political, economic and social problems, national and international, the publication of books, pamphlets and periodicals, and by any other appropriate methods. The Society shall be affiliated to the Labour Party. 3 The Society as a whole shall have no collective policy beyond what is implied in Rule 2; its research shall be free and objective in its methods.
    [Show full text]
  • Climate Change Accountability
    CLIMATE CHANGE ACCOUNTABILITY YOUNG FABIANS ENVIRONMENT NETWORK COP26 REPORT Revealing How to Improve Transparency, Assign Responsibility & Implement Science-Backed Solutions to Solve the Climate Crisis Foreword by Matthew Pennycook MP Edited by Jack Parker, Cecilia Jastrzembska & Laura Cunliffe-Hall © 2020 Young Fabians Climate Change Accountability First published September 2020. Launched at Labour Connected 2020. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior writ- ten permission of the publisher or editor, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law, where the source of information is acknowledged as this publication. Please send a copy of the document in which this publication is used or quoted to the publisher and editor. For permission requests, write to the publisher or editor, addressed “Attention: Permissions Coordinator”. Like all publications of the Fabian Society, this report represents not the collective views of the Society, nor nec- essarily the views of the editors nor the writers of the forewords, but only the views of the individual writers. The responsibility of the Society is limited to approving its publications as worthy of consideration within the Labour movement. Typeset and Cover Design: Robin Wilde: https://robinwilde.me. The editors would like to thank Labour Party Graphic Designers for putting them in touch with Robin. The moral rights of the author have been asserted. British Library Cataloguing in Publication data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Li- brary.
    [Show full text]
  • Fabian Society
    SOS POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION M.A POLITICAL SCIENCE II SEM POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT, THEORY & CONTEMPORARY IDEOLOGIES UNIT-III Topic Name-fabian socialism WHAT IS MEANT BY FABIAN SOCIALISM? • The Fabian Society is a British socialistorganisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow WHO STARTED THE FABIAN SOCIETY? • Its nine founding members were Frank Podmore, Edward R. Pease, William Clarke, Hubert Bland, Percival Chubb, Frederick Keddell, H. H. Champion, Edith Nesbit, and Rosamund Dale Owen. WHO IS THE PROPOUNDER OF FABIAN SOCIALISM? • In the period between the two World Wars, the "Second Generation" Fabians, including the writers R. H. Tawney, G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski, continued to be a major influence on socialistthought. But the general idea is that each man should have power according to his knowledge and capacity. WHAT IS THE FABIAN POLICY? • The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale. Employment of this strategy implies that the side adopting this strategy believes time is on its side, but it may also be adopted when no feasible alternative strategy can be devised. HISTORY • This
    [Show full text]
  • The Rise and Fall of the Labour League of Youth
    University of Huddersfield Repository Webb, Michelle The rise and fall of the Labour league of youth Original Citation Webb, Michelle (2007) The rise and fall of the Labour league of youth. Doctoral thesis, University of Huddersfield. This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/761/ The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided: • The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy; • A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and • The content is not changed in any way. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/ THE RISE AND FALL OF THE LABOUR LEAGUE OF YOUTH Michelle Webb A thesis submitted to the University of Huddersfield in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Huddersfield July 2007 The Rise and Fall of the Labour League of Youth Abstract This thesis charts the rise and fall of the Labour Party’s first and most enduring youth organisation, the Labour League of Youth.
    [Show full text]
  • What Next for Labour?
    What next cover 6/9/09 9:48 PM Page 1 what next for Labour? what next Demos is grateful to all the contributors to this volume: Rushanara Ali what next for Associate Director at the Young Foundation Jessica Asato Acting Director of Progress Phillip Blond Labour? Director of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos Burks Peter Harrington and Beatrice Karol edited by Martin Bright Political journalist and founder of New Deal of the Mind ideas for the Philip Collins Chair of Trustees, Demos Jon Cruddas MP for Dagenham progressive left Alan Finlayson Reader in Politics and International Relations at Swansea University Maurice Glasman Director of the Faith and Citizenship Programme at London Metropolitan University A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS Lisa Harker and Carey Oppenheim Co-directors of the Institute for Public Policy Research Tristram Hunt Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London Kevin Jefferys Professor of Contemporary History at Plymouth University Tessa Jowell MP for Dulwich and West Norwood. Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Olympics, and Paymaster General Sunder Katwala General Secretary of the Fabian Society Neal Lawson Chair of Compass David Marquand Chair of the Demos Advisory Council and Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford Michael Meacher Former Environment Secretary Richard Reeves Director of Demos Jenni Russell Writer, broadcaster and columnist for the Guardian Jonathan Rutherford Editor of Soundings and Professor of Cultural Studies, Middlesex University Stuart White Director of the Public Policy Unit at the University of Oxford ISBN 978-1-906693-17-6 £5 © Demos 2009 What next cover 6/9/09 9:48 PM Page 2 1 First published in 2009 © Demos.
    [Show full text]
  • Anticipations
    youngfabians Anticipations “You don’t lead by hitting peple over the head - that’s assault, not leadership.” Dwight Eisenhower Volume 10 issue 1 - Spring 2006 On deadlines and leadership Editorial by Emma Carr As this is my first Anticipations editorial, I feel articles and reviews contained within each my first act should be to congratulate those issue of Anticipations. When I sat down and that have gone before me. first looked at the blank project page that was the beginning of this issue, I couldn’t imagine Actually, my first act should be to introduce how it would end up being an actual myself and Angela. My name is Emma and I publication. am the new Anticipations editor. I am assisted most ably by the lovely Angela Green - who The thing that really helped, and I mean this valiently puts up wth my bossiness, my from the bottom of my heart, was having stuff bullying and my attempts to turn every to put in it. Really. It’s wonderful to suddenly editing session into a trip to the pub instead. see the bucket that is your project start filling up with intelligent writings from intelligent Now, back to my original point, I would like to people all over the country. congratulate my predecessors. Well done; you have all - from early days of Liam Byrne and Which brings me quite neatly to this issue and his companions to the revoluntionary days of its contents. David Floyd - done a marvellous job and I have underestimated your hard work. Our theme this time was political leadership and the upcoming local elections - nearly Now, I never expected editing Anticipations to upon us now, see how that deadline thing be a piece of a cake - this being my second works.
    [Show full text]
  • Inside the Political Market
    Notes Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Priestley, 1968. Reviewing a book on the latest American campaign tech- niques the same year, Labour agent Terry Pitt warned colleagues that politi- cians ‘will be promoted and marketed like the latest model automobile’ (Labour Organiser no. 558, December). 2 Palast, 2002, p. 161–69. 3 Editorial in The Observer, 18th August 1996. 4 The speech was made to the pro-business Institute of Directors, ‘Mandelson: We sold Labour as news product’, The Guardian, 30th April 1998. 5 Hughes and Wintour, 1990; Gould, 1998. 6 Cockett, 1994. Introduction: Inside the Political Market 1 Coates, 1980; Minkin, 1980; Warde, 1982. 2 Hare, 1993; ‘Top Consumer PR Campaigns of All Time’, PR Week 29th March 2002. Of the other politicians featured the Suffragettes and Conservatives (1979) occupied the fifteenth and sixteenth places respec- tively. 3 Gould, 2002; Gould, 1998, p. 81. 4 Abrams and Rose with Hinden, 1960; Gould, 2002. 5 Mandelson and Liddle, 1996, p. 2; see also Wright, 1997. The Blair leader- ship, like most politicians, deny the extent to which they rely on profes- sionals for strategic input and guidance (Mauser, 1989). 6 Interviewed on BBC1 ‘Breakfast with Frost’, 14th January 1996, cited in Blair, 1996, p. 49. Blair regularly returns to this theme: in his 2003 Conference speech he attacked the interpretation of ‘New Labour’ as ‘a clever piece of marketing, good at winning elections, but hollow where the heart should be’ (The Guardian, 1st October 2003). 7 Driver and Martell, 1998, pp. 158–9. 8 Crompton and Lamb, 1986, p. 1. 9 Almond, 1990, p.
    [Show full text]
  • Within Reach – the New Politics of Multiple
    In association with: WITHIN REACH THE NEW POLITICS OF MULTIPLE NEEDS AND EXCLUSIONS Edited by Ed Wallis Fabian Ideas 636 and Oliver Hilbery The Fabian Society is Britain’s oldest political think tank. Since 1884 the Society has played a central role in developing political ideas and public policy on the left. Through a wide range of publications and events the Society influences political and public thinking, but also provides a space for broad and open-minded debate, drawing on an unrivalled external network and its own expert research and analysis. The Society is alone among think tanks in being a democratically-constituted membership organisation, with almost 7,000 members. During its history the membership has included many of the key thinkers on the British left and every Labour Prime Minister. Today it counts over 200 parliamentarians in its number. Member-led activity includes 70 local Fabian societies, the Scottish and Welsh Fabians, the Fabian Women’s Network and the Young Fabians, which is itself the leading organisation on the left for young people to debate and influence political ideas. The Society was one of the original founders of the Labour Party and is constitutionally affiliated to the party. It is however editorially, organisationally and financially independent and works with a wide range of partners of all political persuasions and none. Fabian Society 61 Petty France London SW1H 9EU www.fabians.org.uk Fabian Ideas 636 First published 2014 ISBN 978-0-7163-0636-8 Head of Editorial: Ed Wallis Editorial Assistant: Anya Pearson This pamphlet, like all publications of the Fabian Society, represents not the collective views of the Society but only the views of the author.
    [Show full text]
  • Open Labour National Committee 2020 Statements Open Section
    Open Labour National Committee 2020 Statements Open Section Aaron Mark Daniels Ceredigion My name is Aaron, and I am 22 years old. I have been a member of the Labour party since January 2015, and in that time have been CLP conference youth delegate on two occasions for Worcester CLP, the Ceredigion Youth and Student Officer for one year, and the North Branch Ceredigion Youth and Student Officer for two years. As well as this I have served on the committee of Aberystwyth Labour Students for four years as Disabled students officer, campaigns coordinator and finally as the current serving chair, and as Disabled Students Officer of Welsh Labour Students for three years. Outside of Labour I have served as the Disabled Students officer of Aberystwyth Students Union for two years, as well as being a candidate for Wellbeing officer. Neurodiversity is something close to my heart and something I have campaigned on heavily in my time at University and beyond. Suffering from mental health issues as well, the issue is at the forefront of my mind and my politics. I have been an early member of Neurodiversity Labour, adopting their policy points and practices moving forwards. I am all about ending the stigma against mental health, it should be an issue. Abi Barinski Manchester Gorton I am a Lancastrian member, proud of my involvement in developing our North West group and wanting to bring that experience to National Committee. If elected, I will advocate giving members the opportunity to represent their interests. I will ensure: 1) Diversity We are too male, white, Southern, and graduate – let’s ensure women, BAME and working-class members feel included and represented.
    [Show full text]
  • Call to Europe Vi Conference Programme 'Millennials and Politics'
    CALL TO EUROPE VI CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ‘MILLENNIALS AND POLITICS’ 17 & 18 June 2016 REGISTER HERE FEPS With the financial support of the European Parliament @FEPS_Europe #MILLENNIALVOICES CALL TO EUROPE VI ‘MILLENNIALS AND POLITICS’ th 17 June 16th June – Speakers’ arrivals and dinner CONFERENCE DAY 1 Main plenary room: EUROPE (EN-FR) Venue: Management Centre Europe (MCE) Conference Centre Rue de l'Aqueduc 118, 1050 Ixelles Overall conference moderation by: Ernst STETTER, FEPS Secretary General Conference Report by: coordinated and prepared by FEPS Young Academics Network 08:30 – 09:00 REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE 08:50 – 09: 05 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Video Screening – The Millennial Dialogue Initiative 09:05– 09:35 MILLENNIAL DIALOGUE: MAKING MILLENNIALS VOICES HEARD ACROSS THE WORLD David LEWIS, CEO and Founder AudienceNet, UK Duduetsang MOKOELE Assistant Researcher, Knowledge Economy and Scientific Advancement, MISTRA Paul WACHE, Head of Department of Foreign Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mozambique Layla ZAIDANE, Managing Director, Generation Progress, US 09:35 – 10: 00 KEYNOTE SPEECH: Millennials, Europe and Political Engagement Frans TIMMERMANS – First Vice-President of the European Commission, the Netherlands 10:00– 10:45 THREE DECADES OF GENDER POLICIES CALL – NINETIES, NOUGHTIES, AND THE TWENTIES (Fishbowl conversation) . Zita GURMAI – President of PES Women and Vice President of FEPS, Hungary . Olga ZRIHEN – Vice-President of the PES Group, Committee of the Regions, Belgium . Marju LAURISTIN – Vice-President
    [Show full text]
  • FABIAN SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 Contents
    FABIAN SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 Contents About the Fabian Society 3 Chair’s report 6 General secretary’s report 7 Fabian Women’s Network 8 Young Fabians 9 Welsh Fabians 10 Scottish Fabians 11 Local Fabian societies 12 Fabian policy groups 13 Major activities 14 Publications and the Jenny Jeger prize 16 Events 17 Fabian Review 18 List of local Fabian societies 19 Treasurer’s report 20 Auditor’s report and accounts 21 Funding partners 22 Member donations 23 2 | Annual report 2018-19 About the Fabian Society The Fabian Society is an independent left-leaning think tank and a democratic membership society with over 7,000 members. We influence political and public thinking and provide a space for broad and open-minded debate. We publish insight, analysis and opinion in print and online; conduct research and undertake major policy inquiries; convene conferences, speaker meetings and roundtables; and facilitate member debate and activism right across the UK. We are one of the original founders of the Labour party and are constitutionally affiliated to the party as a socialist society. As a think tank we seek to influence political and policy debate. Our staff team in London and Edinburgh work with a wide network of leading politicians and policy experts to develop and promote new ideas and to influence the climate of political opinion. We are also a membership society and our members are at the heart of everything we do. They set the society’s direction, through member meetings, elections and committees. They shape our programme as contributors and volunteers.
    [Show full text]
  • 2019 NPF Report
    REPORT 2019 @LabPolicyForum policyforum.labour.org.uk #LabourPolicy Contents Foreword ........................................................................................................................................5 About this document ...................................................................................................................6 Policy Commission Annual Reports Early Years, Education and Skills ............................................................................................7 Economy, Business and Trade ............................................................................................. 35 Environment, Energy and Culture ....................................................................................... 55 Health and Social Care ........................................................................................................... 81 Housing, Local Government and Transport ..................................................................... 99 International ...........................................................................................................................113 Justice and Home Affairs .....................................................................................................129 Work, Pensions and Equality ..............................................................................................155 5 Appendices ..............................................................................................................................175 3
    [Show full text]