Dame Louise Joyce Ellman is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Riverside from 1997 to 2019. She is a member of the Labour Party.
Ann BlackOBE is a British political activist who serves as a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party. She served from 2000 to 2018 and was re-elected in November 2020. She was chair of the NEC from 2009 to 2010,and has also served as chair of the NEC's disputes panel.
Sharon Hodgson is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Washington and Gateshead South since 2024,and previously for Washington and Sunderland West and Gateshead East and Washington West from 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she has chaired the Finance Committee since 2023.
The Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) is a centre-left group of elected members on the Labour Party's National Executive Committee,founded in 1998. They represent members from a broad spectrum of the Labour membership,ranging from the centre-left to those on the left-wing.
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM),known as Poale Zion (Great Britain) from 1903 to 2004,is one of the oldest socialist societies affiliated to the UK Labour Party. It is a member of the progressive coalition of Avodah/Meretz/Arzenu/Ameinu within the World Zionist Organization. Its sister parties are the Israeli Labor Party (Havodah) and Meretz.
Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey is a British independent,formerly Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford,previously Salford and Eccles,since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn,first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and then as Shadow Business Secretary from 2017 to 2020. Under Keir Starmer,she served as Shadow Education Secretary for only two months in 2020.
Momentum is a British left-wing political organisation which has been described as a grassroots movement supportive of the Labour Party;since January 2017,all Momentum members must be members of the party. It was founded in 2015 by Jon Lansman,Adam Klug,Emma Rees and James Schneider after Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour Party leader and it was reported to have between 20,000 and 30,000 members in 2021.
Jonathan Lansman is a British political activist. He is best known for having worked on Jeremy Corbyn's successful 2015 campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and subsequently founded the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum. He is a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee. Lansman has worked for both Tony Benn and Michael Meacher,and was a prominent supporter of Benn in the early 1980s.
There have been instances of antisemitism within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom (UK) since its establishment. One such example is canards about "Jewish finance" during the Boer War. In the 2000s,controversies arose over comments made by Labour politicians regarding an alleged "Jewish lobby",a comparison by London Labour politician Ken Livingstone of a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard,and a 2005 Labour attack on Jewish Conservative Party politician Michael Howard.
Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) is a British organisation formed in 2017 for Jewish members of the Labour Party. Its aims include a commitment "to strengthen the party in its opposition to all forms of racism,including anti-Semitism ... to uphold the right of supporters of justice for Palestinians to engage in solidarity activities",and "to oppose attempts to widen the definition of antisemitism beyond its meaning of hostility towards,or discrimination against,Jews as Jews".
Jennifer Formby is a British trade unionist and political figure who served as General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2018 to 2020. She was previously political director and south-east England regional secretary for Unite the Union.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Lewisham East on 14 June 2018,following the resignation of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. It was the second by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament,which was elected in June 2017.
Labour First is a British political organisation associated with the Labour Party. It was originally founded in 1980 but refounded in 1988. Born out of the political right wing of the Labour Party's struggles with its left wing,it sees itself as protecting the tradition of the "old Labour right". It has been described externally as "the voice of the party’s traditional right" and "a group on the right of the party". It organises petitions,endorses likeminded candidates,and runs events.
Peter Rupert William Willsman is a British political activist who was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and the secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.
Navendu Prabhat Mishra is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport since 2019.
The 2020 Labour Party leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to resign as the leader of the Labour Party following the party's defeat at the 2019 general election. It was won by Keir Starmer,who received 56.2 per cent of the vote on the first round and went on to become Prime Minister after winning the 2024 general election. It was held alongside the deputy leadership election,in which Angela Rayner was elected to succeed Tom Watson as deputy leader after Watson retired from Parliament in November 2019,in advance of the election.
The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism,2014–2019,is a leaked British dossier written by party staff in response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's investigation into the party's handling of antisemitism complaints and includes reports of other forms of racism. The report reveals emails of senior party management staff,aligned with the right of the party,and alleges obstruction of justice in dealing with cases of antisemitism and other noted cases of racism,and it does not clear the party of accusations of being "institutionally antisemitic". Although the report states that it "thoroughly disproves any suggestion that antisemitism is not a problem in the Party",or that it is all a smear or a witch-hunt,its main assertion is that rampant factionalism within the party had ultimately led to antisemitism and racism allegations not being dealt with properly.
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB),also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB,is a socialist and socially conservative political party in the United Kingdom,strongly identified with its leader,former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway.
Keir Starmer served as Leader of the Opposition from April 2020,following the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn after Labour's defeat at the 2019 general election and Starmer's election as Labour leader in the ensuing leadership election,until his party won a landslide victory at the 2024 general election in July 2024. During his tenure,Starmer moved Labour toward the political centre and emphasised the elimination of antisemitism within the party.
