2nd May – NPF priorities meeting I had a phone call meeting quite soon after the general election was called with our North West National Policy Forum representatives to discuss our priorities for the Labour manifesto. We had a long discussion and I spoke about the work myself and the Education commission have been doing in preparation for the manifesto. This included affordable childcare, free school meals and educational maintenance allowance. Some key policies I raised were looking at introducing free sanitary protection to girls who qualify for free school meals, political education, votes at 16 and meaningful PSHE. 3nd May – General election candidate endorsement meeting After candidates for constituencies are selected it is the job of the NEC to endorse the candidates before they can be nominated. I’m pleased to say we have selected more BAME, women, disabled, young and LGBT candidates than ever before. In retirement seats we had 10 men and 3 women retire. In these seats we selected 10 women and 3 men. We have selected 59% men overall and 40% women, this is up from 2015 where we selected only 34% women. I have put on record that I am disappointed that this is not closer to 50/50 but acknowledge that we have made huge steps towards this and will continue to do so. We have selected more Young Labour candidates than ever before and this will truly pave the way for more young members to stand in the future. You can check out my blog encouraging young members to stand here. 4th May – Polling day In Merseyside we had polling day for the Liverpool city region metro mayor election. I campaigned all day in Wirral South for Steve Rotherham with other young members and I’m so proud that we won. Steve is going to be a fantastic mayor for the city region and I’m excited to see what he will do. 6th May – Labour students campaign day On 6th May we welcomed young members and Labour Students from Manchester to Wirral South. They came all the way across to campaign to help Alison McGovern hold her seat and have made a huge difference. Thanks for coming along! 11th May – Clause V meeting The Clause V meeting refers to the meeting whereby the NEC, the shadow cabinet and trade union representatives have the opportunity to read the manifesto, edit it and confirm it before it goes to the voters. I was really excited about attending this meeting and seeing what was in the Labour manifesto, we had 2 hours to read it in the morning (with copious amounts of coffee) before we went through it chapter by chapter. As we went through it we were able to suggest edits which could either be accepted or rejected by the shadow minister. We were able to do everything by consensus and no votes took place which was positive. I spoke mostly on the education chapter of the manifesto encouraging the inclusion of political education, PSHE and the reintroduction of maintenance grants. I also reiterated the importance of tackling violence against women which is an important issue. The final amended document then passed unanimously. I am so proud of this manifesto and I believe it will give the country and especially young people hope after 7 years of Tory austerity. 17th May – Facebook live – encouraging young people to vote 4 days before the register to vote deadline I took a very early train down to London to host a Facebook live webinar with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and first time voter Kiran Dhaliwal. The webinar was to encourage young people to register to vote. Young people are going to be crucial in deciding the outcome of this election and the stakes have never been higher. So register to vote and encourage your friends to, if you don’t vote the government can ignore young people. We have seen this since 2010 when the Tories trebled tuition fees, scrapped grants and made it harder for young people to buy a house. If young people vote the government would be forced to take us seriously! Check out the webinar here. Check out my blog on this here. 22nd May – Campaigning with Jewish Labour Movement Jewish Labour Movement came to Liverpool to campaign on 22nd May and I joined Ella Rose campaigning in my home constituency of Liverpool Wavertree for Luciana Berger. JLM have been amazing travelling across the country campaigning for some fantastic MPs including Louise Ellman, Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth amongst many others. 27th May – Labour Students Transitional Conference
I attended Labour Students conference and would like to congratulate those who stood for positions. The speeches were to such a high standard and I know how difficult it can be to get up and put yourself out there, so well done to all! If you require this report in a different format or have any questions please get in touch: [email protected] Jasmin NEC Youth Representative
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