“If I had a penny for every time I get a tweet saying I want to privatise the NHS, I’d have enough money to fund the NHS.
But we will have a privatised NHS in this country over my dead body.”
A fantastic panel with
@wesstreeting
at PB conference this morning 🏥
Jess we can 💪
We’re very pleased to announce that shadow Secretary of State for telling it like it is
@jessphillips
will be giving the keynote address at Progress annual conference 🎉
Don’t miss out on tickets 👉
Good to see
@lisanandy
be unequivocal on Ridge today - Labour's pandering to Russia over the Skripal case was indefensible, and helped further torpedo the credibility of
@UKLabour
with the public last December.
"We got it wrong on Russia" says Lisa Nandy and adds, "the Conservatives have been desperately slow to wake up to the threat that is posed by the current Putin administration".
#Ridge
Follow live:
“I want Britain to be a country where people don’t have to change who they are just to get on.”
Starting PB conference off strong with a powerful speech from
@Keir_Starmer
.
Ahead of tomorrow's
@CommonsIDC
hearing on Tigray, former international development minister
@Sally_Keeble
writes for the Progress blog, 'there is a genocide in Ethiopia - but the world is standing by...'
"This is our country, lets fix it together".
Powerful speech by
@Keir_Starmer
Turning things around won't be easy, and we can expect a tough budget in October, but the politics of papering over problems is dead.
Congratulations to
@Alison_McGovern
on her selection to fight for the new Birkenhead constituency at the next general election.
Alison is a champion of progressive values and both a huge asset to the PLP and next Labour government.
This is a historic defeat for Theresa May's Tories. Time has run out on
#Brexit
.
As party members, we want Labour to back a
#PeoplesVote
and commit to LEADING the campaign for Europe – as 88 per cent of members want. Write to your Labour MP here:
Parliament has been addressed by Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and many other great world leaders – Donald Trump does not deserve that same honour.
Make your voice heard – tell Bercow to
#DumpTrump
.
Sign the petition at
We’re delighted to announce that
@Keir_Starmer
, Leader of
@UKLabour
will be joining the line-up at this year’s Progressive Britain Conference!
Join us on Saturday at the TUC in Central London, or watch along on the livestream. ⬇️
24 years ago, we were given a chance to make a real difference to people all across our country.
On a swing of 8.8%, millions placed their trust in us to deliver for them. And we did.
We know Labour in power can change lives, so we’ll continue to fight hard to do so again.✊🌹
“On this idea that we’ve not set out what we stand for- I don’t know an opposition party that I can remember that set out their missions a year or 18 months before an election. We’ve done that.”
@Keir_Starmer
Q&A with
@ayeshahazarika
at PB Conference!
🚨Some news! 🚨
Nathan is standing down as director of PB in October to launch a new think tank - the
@FutureGovForum
We're pleased to announce that
@adamlangleben
will succeed him as director, taking over after party conference. More info in coming weeks & good luck to both!
When someone seriously suggests that Chris Williamson should be the next leader of the Labour party.
Watch our deputy editor
@Conorpope
's reaction to that suggestion here 👇
Let's call this what it is: cowardice.
Tom Watson was elected democratically with 51% of the vote. They don't want him, but they know they can't beat him.
@PeoplesMomentum
, you do not represent all Labour members.
@tom_watson
, we stand with you ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
Momentum source: Momentum source:
"We just can’t afford to go into an election with a deputy leader set on wrecking Labour’s chances.
Labour members overwhelmingly want a deputy leadership election, but our outdated rulebook won’t let it happen...”
Andrea Leadsom's words are an absolute disgrace.
You might expect this in the 70s, but not today. The Tories should stand by their own policy of RSE in schools, not capitulate to pressure from homophobes – but what can you expect from the party that brought you section 28?
Andrea Leadsom on row over teaching kids about LGBT relationships - says parents should get to decide when their children "become exposed to that information"
Well, Jon Lansman might not want
@tom_watson
– but we do.
Make sure you're at the Odeon Brighton tomorrow at 6pm to hear what Labour's progressives have to say 👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿
Congratulations to David Evans on his appointment as GS of
@UKLabour
- an innovative community campaigner, and great friend to Labour local government, a team-builder and an open-handed leader, we're excited to get stuck in behind him!
Chris Williamson's readmission to the Labour party is a disgrace.
But now is not the time for more words. We need action.
Tell Jennie Formby: Kick Out Chris. Write to Jennie Formby here 👇
The fact that someone felt empowered to write this motion, and then 45 people felt that they could vote for it, shows how far our party has fallen. This is institutional antisemitism – this is the problem.
Hackney North CLP should be suspended immediately.
We are sad to see MPs leave and we must debate their decision respectfully. Progress will continue to work to make the Labour party the best version of itself. It can be a pro-European force for social justice at home and abroad, with zero tolerance for racism and antisemtisim.
✖️ Chris Williamson tweets in support of a holocaust denier – no action
✖️ 2 elected representatives make antisemitic comments – no action
✖️
@RachelRileyRR
trolled by Labour supporters – no statement
✊ We will continue to stand with our Jewish comrades until they are heard
Meanwhile two elected
@UKLabour
representatives have been reinstated this week after making antisemitic comments.
One of them after a matter of weeks, before the investigation has been concluded.
Last night a number of Labour MPs came out for a
#PeoplesVote
for the first time by voting for the Beckett-Kyle-Wilson motion.
Do you want to say thank you?
Click here to thank them for joining the cause 👇👇
George Galloway is trying to get back into the Labour party.
He has dismissed antisemitism and disrespected women.
We must stop this – write to
@JennieGenSec
now and say
#NoWayGalloway
.
Take action here:
Huge congratulations to
@Mather_Keir
!
Last night the people of Selby and Ainsty overturned a 20,000 Tory majority, a historic result.
The demand for change is clear, and only
@UKLabour
can deliver it🌹
Welcome to the new
#ProgressiveBritain
website - launched today! We want the site to be your main destination for news, views and ideas about we're going to reshape Progressive Britain - and rebuild
@UKLabour
and the nation.
We retain our enduring position - solidarity with the Jewish community and solidarity with
@JewishLabour
- we continue to follow their lead on this issue 1/3
Emily Benn, previous Labour Parliamentary candidate, was on BCC News this morning talking about the way that political discourse has broken down in the Labour Party and how much abuse she's received in the last few days.
Watch here 🔽🔽
Pete Willsman has given the leadership of our party a choice: either you stand unequivocally with the Jewish community and remove him from the NEC, or you decide that you're willing to institutionally facilitate racism.
Over to you
@UKLabour
NEW: Labour's Pete Willsman recorded saying:
- Israeli embassy whipping up anti-Semitism claims to attack Labour.
- Party staffers work "indirectly" for embassy.
- 68 rabbis "organised" by embassy to complain about "severe" anti-Semitism within Labour.
The Independent has come out in favour of a
@PeoplesVote_uk
on the final Brexit deal.
If you want Labour members to decide whether the party should back a People's Vote, sign up to
#LabourSay
🚨 NEWS 🚨
Join us THIS SUNDAY for Progress and Policy Network's Progressive Britain Conference, the first gathering of Labour clans since the local elections.
We'll be joined by
@Keir_Starmer
, discussing the future of our party. See you there!
Tickets:
Sad news today - Shirley Williams, former Labour minister and founder of the SDP, dies aged 90 - a champion of progressive social democracy and a role model for generations of
@UKLabour
and
@LibDems
supporters and politicians
We are excited to be hearing from
@Keir_Starmer
, The Leader of the Labour Party as we launch Progressive Britain today.
Join over 800 of us and watch his first public address since the local elections LIVE on our Facebook page:
#ProgBrit2021
The elected officers of our National Coordinating Group have decided to withdraw Momentum's support for Pete Willsman in Labour's ongoing NEC election.
Please vote Dar, Elmi, Garnham, Henderson, Lansman, Mishra, Webbe & Williams: 👍
#LabourNEC
#JC9
Progress deputy director
@stephanielloyd1
was on Sky News this morning talking about Labour's antisemitism crisis, Pete Willsman's election to Labour's NEC and the need for Labour to adopt the full IHRA definition as soon as possible.
Watch now ⬇️⬇️
Today we've launched our first
#ProgressiveBritain
work programme. It will shape the research we do, the articles we run & the events we host. Please share, let us know what you think - & join us as we shape the policy agenda of the next
@UKLabour
govt
Want to get a job in politics but don't know how? Wondering how to get a foot in the door?
Today we're launching the Horizons Programme, a series of events to demystify all of this for people from under-represented groups.
Get details below and signup.
Best of luck today to
@UKLabour
's fantastic candidates
@damienegan
and
@Gvkitchen
!
Kingswood and Wellingborough need change, and only Labour can deliver it🌹
Zero tolerance of antisemitism - and the denial of antisemitism - means zero tolerance, regardless of who you are.
@Keir_Starmer
has made the right decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. Long overdue action starts
‘We are a united unit with a common purpose.’
Jess Phillips is coming to Progress Annual conference to help us shape the future of our movement.
Will you? Tickets here:
‘For the hard-right of the Tory party Brexit was always a political project … to radically reshape this country as a low-tax, no-rights, free-market economy.’
👏 There 👏 is 👏 no 👏 left 👏 wing 👏 case 👏 for 👏 Brexit 👏
‘I think the majority of the Labour membership want us to stamp out racism... and come together to stamp out this Tory Brexit’
@ChukaUmunna
on what Labour should be talking about now
#BAMEvoices
Progress director
@RichardAngell
was on Sky News this lunchtime talking to Owen Jones about *that* Brexit vote in Parliament, and what the Labour leadership can do to really oppose a Tory hard Brexit.
Watch now 👇
Your last chance to join us tomorrow!🎉📢
With
@UKLabour
frontbenchers, a
@Keir_Starmer
plenary speech, and fantastic lineup of experts, policymakers, pollsters, and journalists, you won't want to miss Progressive Britain Conference 2023.
Tickets here:
This does not represent Labour values or Labour members.
Literally running out of ways to say this: immigrants are good and they make our country better. Can we please stop doing the hard-right's job for them 🙄
Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman on whether retaining free movement will be one of his demands in talks with May: “Freedom of movement ends when we leave the EU and we will replace it with fair management of migration.”
This. Vote. Matters.
Due to NEC policies, Labour is embroiled in an antisemitism scandal and members don't have a voice on Brexit.
🗳️ Support the
#LabourNEC
candidates who would give members a Brexit vote at conference and who support the full IHRA definition of antisemitism
"It is very, very, very important that Labour members have a real determining, direct say on this issue, above all others."
Neil Kinnock says it is vital for Labour members to have their views heard on Brexit.
Do you agree? Sign up to the campaign 👉👉
"If we have a hard Brexit, austerity will be locked in for decades to come."
Labour members need to be heard on Brexit, says
@EmmaReynoldsMP
.
Sign up to the campaign for a meaningful vote at Labour conference this year 👉👉
Must read here from
@campbellclaret
on why the radical right are so desperate for a no deal Brexit - they see it as the gateway to the deregulated, anti-welfare, almost no-state country they’ve been agitating for since the fall of Margaret Thatcher
My piece for
@tortoise
on a book written 23 years ago by the father of
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
which helps explain why the radical right want no deal, as part of their unregulated, anti-welfare, tax-evading world 1/2
We send our love and sincere condolences to
@kategarraway
and family on the passing of Derek Draper, a founding Director of our predecessor organisation Progress.
Today we're launching
#ProgressiveVoices
- a new platform for members and supporters to share their thoughts and write for us. To start the series,
@DavidHirsh
writes 'why we must resist the "stab in the back" narrative over antisemitism
Tories take note: this is what real leadership looks like.
@jessphillips
: ‘We can sit here and say “the country can’t afford to do it”, but the country can’t afford not to do it.’
.
@JuliaHB1
: 'Do they [Labour] have straight white male conferences?'
@RichardAngell
: 'They don't – because it's known as parliament.'
Progress director Richard Angell defended Labour's liberation conferences on talkRADIO this morning
Brexit: if we want the people to shape the final outcome, Labour members need to have their say.
@Andrew_Adonis
backs the campaign for a meaningful Brexit vote at Labour party conference this year.
Join him. Sign up here 👉👉
Breaking News: Sen. Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden’s pick for vice president. A pragmatic moderate, she is the first Black woman on a major party ticket.
Could the Corbyn Party win in North London?
Maybe.
Would it do anything to change Britain for the better?
Almost certainly not.
@Labourpaul
writes for Progressive Britain:
Do you really want to go out and campaign for a manifesto that doesn't respect Labour's democratic conference policy?
Email Labour's NEC right now and tell them to back a radical manifesto for the European elections.
Demand better here 👉
#PeoplesVote
We are delighted to announce that
@NathanYeowell
has been appointed as director of Progress.
A committed community activist and organiser, we believe that Nathan has the experience, skills and vision to lead the Progress team as the organisation moves forward.
Well done
@UKLabour
for doing the bare minimum we'd expect from a progressive, anti-racist party.
Now, when can we expect him to be removed from our National Executive Committee?