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Reflections on Labour Party Conference 2026
After Labour Party conference last year, Renewal published a set of reflections from contributors and editors who had attended what would prove to be Keir Starmer's final conference as leader and PM. This year, we have repeated the exercise for the first party conference of the Burnham premiership. Breathing out My main reflection, after watching Andy Burnham's first conference speech, came not as a positive assessment of Burnham, but as a negative assessment of Keir Starmer.
‘The Community Empowerment Bill is quietly shifting power from Westminster to local people’
©Shutterstock/Corner Photography This week, the government will pass the most radical piece of legislation you’ve never heard of. The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill represents the biggest shift of power from government to communities in a generation. It embeds bold new ownership rights for communities, giving them unprecedented opportunities to take over buildings in their local areas.
Reclaiming community: why Labour must put local power at the heart of its vision
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The growing inequality of shared spaces
Caitlin Prowle This week, Westminster has seemingly discovered the existence of private members’ clubs. These clubs, almost always based on paid membership, have been around for centuries, existing in London since the 1600s. Some, though not all, continue to exclude women from their membership.
John Bercow praises Starmer and lays into Tory government at Labour event – LabourList
Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has praised Keir Starmer for having a “remorseless, incisive and persistent approach” and criticised the Tory government at a fringe event at Labour conference. Bercow was introduced during the ‘in conversation’ event in a packed room as “Labour’s newest recruit”. The former Tory MP joined Labour earlier this year and is attending his first Labour conference.
Labour “does not properly understand energy”, says GMB’s Gary Smith – LabourList
GMB general secretary Gary Smith has told a party conference event that the Labour Party “does not properly understand energy”. The event, organised by the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) and the Dods Group, looked at the nuclear sector and its role in Labour Party policy-making. Smith, who was elected as the new GMB general secretary earlier this year, said that “too much of the debate over energy has been hijacked by the renewables lobby”.
Anti-trans members are “dinosaurs” who want to “hoard rights”, says Lammy – LabourList
Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy has told a conference event this morning that anti-trans “dinosaurs exist in our own party” who want to “hoard rights”. Asked at a fringe meeting today about the ongoing conflict in the party over the rights of transgender people, he said there is “always a debate when you’re extending rights to people who have been denied them for so long”.
Delegates voting against EHRC changes should not be in party, says Ruth Smeeth – LabourList
Delegates who vote against Equality and Human Rights Commission rule changes later today should “look yourself in the mirror and ask what party you should be in – because it isn’t ours”, former MP Ruth Smeeth told a Labour First rally today. Smeeth, who lost her Stoke-on-Trent North seat in the 2019 general election, urged delegates at the rally to vote for the EHRC changes, saying “today is the day to turn the page on the horror of antisemitism in the Labour Party”.
“I would not have signed off” nimby graphic, Lucy Powell says – LabourList
Lucy Powell has said that she “would not have signed off” a “nimby” Labour Party graphic distributed on social media earlier this year that criticised the government’s plans to build on “your green spaces without your say”. Powell, who currently serves as Shadow Housing Secretary, told a Labour conference fringe event today that she “wouldn’t encourage” the use of the graphic or its message because “we are absolutely not against new housing being built”.
“Get on board or get out of the way,” Nadia Whittome tells Labour leadership – LabourList
Nadia Whittome, the MP for Nottingham East, has told a Young Labour rally that the Labour leadership should “get on board or get out of the way” after the party reportedly failed to co-operate with Young Labour’s organisers in planning their conference events.
The GMB report offers an opportunity for change. The movement must take it – LabourList
“The GMB is institutionally sexist.” That is the first line of Karon Monaghan QC’s report into the internal culture of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions and its handling of sexual harassment complaints. This truly damning indictment confirms what many of us already knew: the trade union movement has, to borrow a quote from the report, “a woman problem”.
Does the Labour Party have a problem with women in leadership?
Women in leadership – the itch that the Labour Party just can’t seem to scratch. It’s the promise we tell ourselves, but never quite stick to. It’s the soundbite we all use, but rarely put into action when it actually matters. Labour’s leadership election is in full swing and, while the current line-up is still dominated by women, Keir Starmer was the first candidate to make the ballot and he is the definite favourite of many.
Lansman is a “hitman who shot himself in the foot”, says Watson
The attempt by Momentum’s Jon Lansman to abolish the deputy leadership post was an “embarrassing mess” caused by a “hitman who shot himself in the foot”, Tom Watson told a Progress rally tonight. On Friday evening, Lansman – a member of the party’s ruling body – put forward a motion to the national executive committee (NEC) that would have scrapped Watson’s leadership position had it not been ruled out of order by the chair.
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