conference Articles

Conference should reject the ‘McDonnell amendment’ Sometimes, the most innocent-looking amendments go to the heart of what the Labour party is. Are we simply a grassroots, socialist movement, which has members of parliament who are delegates, or are we a broad...

Labour’s leader has been brave to take on the task of reforming the party. He deserves to succeed ‘Party reform,’ Sedgefield MP and former Tony Blair aide Phil Wilson once suggested, ‘stopped on 2 May 1997.’ Until this point, New Labour’s drive to reform the party was...

Rachel Reeves MP writes about why she is standing for the Conference Arrangements Committee. I joined the Labour Party when I was 17. The following year I had my first chance to attend Conference. I've been attending Conference every year since, including one year...