Labour to Win NEC Slate Challenges Momentum

Via Luke Akehurst

Labour to Win, the new umbrella group for progressive, mainstream Labour members, has announced the candidates it is recommending for the election of nine CLP (Constituency Labour Party) representatives on Labour’s National Executive Committee.

The election is scheduled to be held between 19 October and 13 November, with every party member being able to vote by the single transferable vote system (STV). Nominations by CLPs open on 11 July and close on 27 September. The nine members elected will hold office for two years, starting at this year’s Annual Conference. The nine incumbents are seven people supported by Momentum, elected in 2018, and the two mainstream winners of this year’s byelections, Johanna Baxter and Gurinder Singh Josan.

Labour to Win’s nine recommendations are politically, geographically and demographically diverse, and go far beyond supporters of Labour to Win’s founding partners, Progress and Labour First, to include people with a background firmly on the left of the party.

All the candidates are well-known grassroots activists and dedicated campaigners for the Labour Party.



There are six official Labour to Win candidates that we recommend you use your first six preferences for:

• Luke Akehurst - NEC member 2010-2012, former Chief Whip of Hackney Council and parliamentary candidate in Essex and Hampshire

• Johanna Baxter- NEC member, Cunninghame North CLP Chair, Scottish Executive Committee member

• Gurinder Singh Josan - NEC member, antiracism campaigner, Vice Chair of Sikhs for Labour, Sandwell Unite branch secretary

• Terry Paul - Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Services on Newham Council and former PLP Campaigns Officer

• Michael Payne - Deputy Leader of Gedling Borough Council & Notts County Councillor; Deputy Leader of the LGA Labour Group

• Shama Tatler - Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Property & Planning, Brent Council

• Note - this is not necessarily the order you should preference the candidates, we'll send more detailed voting instructions closer to when the ballot drops.

In the interests of ensuring a politically pluralistic NEC, and to ensure gender and regional balance, Labour to Win is only standing six candidates itself, and also urging its supporters to vote for three other candidates, from the left of the party:

• Ann Black – Independent Left - NEC member 2000-2018 as part of the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance, South East Regional Board Member, Secretary of Oxford & District Labour Party

• Theresa Griffin – Tribune Group - MEP for the North West Region, 2014-2020

• Paula Sheriff – Tribune Group – MP for Dewsbury, 2015-2019