Mish Rahman Profile picture
Labour NEC member. Trustee - Show Racism The Red Card. Socialist. Aston Villa fanatic.
Jul 25, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
NEC UPDATE

Short NEC meeting today compared to traditional July meetings which are usually long as the road to conference begins.

Membership report

the GS confirmed we currently have 385,000 fully paid Labour members plus another 13,000 in arrears - Total 398,000 members There were tributes paid to Margaret McDonagh, Bob Kerslake and Glenda Jackson who we have sadly lost since the last NEC meeting.

The Forde Report working group shall meet for a final time before conference to discuss the actions and implementations of those from the report
Mar 28, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
LABOUR NEC UPDATE!

The NEC met today for its 2nd meeting of the year in hybrid, both in person and

As I'm observing Ramadan, I zoomed into the meeting and didn't attend in person.

48 hours ago was expecting a quiet ordinary meeting.

But quiet and ordinary...this was NOT! Following apologies and obituaries to two late Labour greats - Eddie Lopez and Janet Anderson, Keir Starmer presented his motion which gained national press yesterday - To remove the NEC endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn MP