Today’s CAC meeting focused on the Constitutional Amendments (rule changes), which is my favourite meeting. We made decisions on which were ruled in and which were sadly not. How it works: • The Governance and Legal Unit compile all of the Constitutional Amendments so those that duplicate motions are ruled […]
Ninety One Nominations?! Wow, thank you so much! There are a lot of people who work really hard to organise for such nominations, especially CLP Secretaries who already had a lot on due to the elections. I would like to acknowledge the huge job they do. I would also like […]
The CAC met this week on Friday 14th May 2021. On the agenda was: - Annual Conference 2021 Update - Disability Access - Changes for Delegates - Review of Reference Back Annual Conference 2021 Update: Conference will be held in Brighton and the main hotel will be the Hilton. The […]
After long consideration, I have decided to restand as the Conference Arrangements Committee CLP Rep for another term (2 years). I am really pleased Billy Hayes has too. We have both sought endorsement from the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) and we're both delighted that they have [without hesitation I'm […]
The CAC met on Thursday (11th Feb) and we focused on the policy review. We were given a presentation by a staff member from the Policy Team. I raised issues at the trust and confidence in the National Policy Forum (NPF) process, and how there seems to be no feedback […]
Today's meeting was predominately around the AGM of the CAC. We only have one post we elect every year and that's the Chair. Election of the CAC Chair Harry Donaldson was proposed and seconded as the sole candidate and therefore was re-elected as our Chair. I seconded Harry, since I […]
An online conference has been announced to 'replace' our traditional conference. "Connected" is the online conference that is being worked on to take place from Saturday 19th to Tuesday 22nd September 2020. It will have two parts to it: - Frontbench Speeches: There will be speeches from Leader' Keir Starmer, […]
The news we were all expecting has been confirmed, the Labour Party Conference 2020 has been cancelled! It is probably no surprise that it has been cancelled, the Coronavirus pandemic is sadly still with us. Many of you, like me have not even been able to visit family, so the […]
This report covers two meetings, one held on Monday 16th September and the other yesterday (Wednesday 18th September). It also includes things that happened between the two meetings. Monday’s Agenda: Time Table NEC Statements Mitcham and Morden Rule Change Brighton Pavilion Rule Change Scrutineers and Tellers Motions to Conference NEC […]
There has not been a CAC meeting this month, however there are several scheduled for next month (Sept) as we hit peak season on the run up to Conference. National Policy Forum Report I am getting a lot of questions about where the NPF Report is. This is usually handled […]
A huge thank you to the 169 CLPs who nominated me to restand for the National CAC, I was totally humbled. A special thank you to all the CLP Secretaries, many of you are inundated with nominations, trigger ballots, the EU election and you still found time to give members […]
There has been no CAC meeting this month, the next is scheduled for the 10th July 2019. However, this month has still busy. New Deadline Due to the EU Elections the deadlines for submission of Constitutional Amendments and nominations has been extended to 28th June 2019, hopefully this will enable […]