✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
'Fixing party culture it won’t be easy, neither was the founding of the NHS; but if we managed that without quite so many WhatsApp groups', writes Maya Desai.
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/our-fra...
A purple and red graphic reading: 'Where next for Labour after Gorton & Denton? With: Anouschka Rajah, Research and Analysis Manager at More in Common Megan Kenyon, Political Correspondent at the New Statesman Paul Fleming, General Secretary of Equity MON 2ND MARCH 6.00PM Online' A Mainstream logo is shown in the bottom right.
🤔 Where next for Labour after Gorton & Denton?
Join this live discussion for Mainstream members with guests from More in Common, the New Statesman and Equity at 6.00pm tomorrow.
Members can use the RSVP link sent via email to sign-up.
Not yet a member? labourmainstream.nationbuilder.com/join
The Gorton and Denton result is an absolute disaster for Labour. Clearly, we now risk no longer being seen as the natural home for progressive voters. This loss was avoidable. Angeliki, members and our party staff worked tirelessly, but our leader and sections of the NEC blocked the one candidate who could have won it for us. That decision now looks like a catastrophic error. We need an immediate and fundamental reset - of strategy, of policy, and of culture - now.
The message from Gorton and Denton is clear: Labour needs a fundamental reset.
A picture of the Labour leaflet Jovan is delivering which shows various local Labour figures who are backing Labour in Gorton & Denton. The figures include Afzal Khan MP, Andy Burnham, and Cllr Bev Craig.
A picture of Jovan stood in front of two Labour placards reading ‘Vote Labour’. He is smiling and has a thumb up.
Mainstream NEC candidate @jowusunepaul.bsky.social is out with the brilliant Labour campaign in Gorton & Denton today!
Say hello if you're around to #GOTV for Angeliki Stogia🌹
Today's the day in Gorton & Denton!
If you're not able to support the campaign in the constituency today, there's still time to RSVP for our phone-bank for Angeliki Stogia at our Organising Forum tonight! 📞🌹
Mainstream members can register on the link sent via email ✅
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
Jason Bunting talks up the good the Labour Government are doing with their 'Pride in Place' scheme, but how a new national mission is needed to seriously rebalance the country.
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/rebalan...
'I am proud to stand strong with the people of Ukraine, whose resilience ensures Ukraine stays strong'
@alexsobel.co.uk of Mainstream's Interim Council on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
labourlist.org/2026/02/ukraine-russian-invasion-fourth-anniversary-alex-sobel/
We were out in Gorton and Denton at the weekend and learnt the most valuable lesson possible - what voters in their places are worried about and how we can build this dialogue.
Mainstream Interim Council Chair Kerry Postlewhite for @labourlist.bsky.social.
A red Labour leaflet showing Labour leading in a bar chart.
Four Labour volunteers walking holding Labour leaflets.
A group of Mainstream members walking down a street.
Mainstream’s Chair, Kerry, stroking a cat whilst canvassing.
We were out in Gorton & Denton today with Mainstream members from the North West and beyond!
Labour’s candidate is a strong local champion with skin in the game - let’s make sure she’s elected this Thursday 🌹
A pink and red gradient graphic that reads: 'For a Labour win in Gorton and Denton. 10.00am Sat 21st Feb. Mainstream'.
⏱️🌹There's still time to RSVP for our campaign day in Gorton & Denton this weekend! Mainstream members and supporters can register using the link sent via email.
Can't make it tomorrow? Join our next Organising Forum on polling day, where we'll be phone-banking for Angeliki.
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
Daniel Harrison takes on the huge issue facing the Government right now - how to fix the crumbling SEND system after 14 years of Tory austerity.
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/the-gov...
A red/purple gradient graphic with Mainstream's regional NPF candidates named and their membership number and region attached. Your candidates for the NPF. L1820520 Michael Durrant East Midlands L1593915 Lauren Davison West Midlands L1260342 Josh Constable South East L1781145 James Driver Yorks and Humber Samuel Barnes South West L1965192 L1398532 Jen Walker East Midlands L0138116 Liz Grey North West A958902 Ed Stubbs Wales L1209508 Sean Laws North L0043592 Kevin Hind Eastern L0079841 Emma Whysall London L1751340 Muhammad Ali West Midlands L1150299 Scott Brerton North West A203451 Emily Brothers South East L1870365 Panny Antoniou London L1198013 Nairn Angus-McDonald Scotland This year, vote to reconnect Labour with its mainstream.
Pledge your support for our NPF candidates👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/will-y...
A red/purple gradient graphic with Mainstream's NEC candidates pictured and named with their membership numbers attached. Your candidates for the NEC. Kerry Postlewhite (CLP section) L1212372 Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (CLP section) L1232610 Cat Arnold (CLP section) L1452611 Elizabeth Dennis (Local Gov section) L0145211 This year, vote to reconnect Labour with its mainstream.
Our NEC and NPF candidates will champion a new politics for Labour rooted in transparency, participation and radical ambition for the country.
Pledge your support below for our NEC candidates👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/mainst...
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
James Bartholomeusz takes a deeper dive into answering the question - what do we actually want our Party to look like?
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/renewin...
The Representation of the People Bill is a good start, but doesn't go nearly far enough. First Past the Post leaves millions unfairly shut out of democracy.
#Democracy #ElectoralReform
This morning, a fake email was sent to Labour MPs purporting to be from Mainstream, calling for a parliamentary walkout in November. This has been reported to the police. The email was not sent by Mainstream, or anyone associated with Mainstream. The address it was sent from is not one owned by us. Clearly, bad faith actors driven by factionalism are seeking to undermine the work that Mainstream is doing with MPs and others from all across the Labour Party to build the ideas, strategy and culture to make our time in government as transformative as possible - and put us on a firm footing in 2029.
This morning, a fake email was sent to Labour MPs purporting to be from Mainstream.
This was not sent from Mainstream and has been reported to the Police.
Founding Mainstream Signatories @paulabarkermp.bsky.social
& @labourlewis.bsky.social, Interim Council Chair Kerry Postlewhite and National Coordinator Luke Hurst joined the Compass podcast to discuss the tumultuous past few days for the Labour Party.
Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.
Founding Mainstream Signatories @paulabarkermp.bsky.social
& @labourlewis.bsky.social, Interim Council Chair Kerry Postlewhite and National Coordinator Luke Hurst joined the Compass podcast to discuss the tumultuous past few days for the Labour Party.
Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.
Not yet a member?
Join today to participate in member-only events like our March Policy Assembly:
labourmainstream.nationbuilder.com/join
A yellow graphic which reads: ‘Mainstream’s March Policy Assembly. Thurs 5th March, 5.45pm, Online’. A red Mainstream flag logo is in the top right, and an image showing a rose growing out of infrastructure and healthy communities is in the bottom right.
🏗️💡Amidst all of the noise and personalities, Labour's reset must start with vision, values and ideas.
Help us to develop the policy programme to transform the country and take on Reform at our March Policy Assembly on 5th March.
Members can RSVP using the link sent yesterday.
Pledge your support for our candidates - and nominate them in your Constituency Labour Party: actionnetwork.org/forms/will-y...
This year, vote to reconnect Labour with its mainstream. Your candidates for the NPF. L1820520 Michael Durrant East Midlands L1593915 Lauren Davison West Midlands L1260342 Josh Constable South East L1781145 James Driver Yorks and Humber Samuel Barnes South West L1965192 L1398532 Jen Walker East Midlands L0138116 Liz Grey North West A958902 Ed Stubbs Wales L1209508 Sean Laws North L0043592 Kevin Hind Eastern L0079841 Emma Whysall London L1751340 Muhammad Ali West Midlands L1150299 Scott Brerton North West A203451 Emily Brothers South East L1870365 Panny Antoniou London L1198013 Nairn Angus-McDonald Scotland
🌹Recent events show the urgency of organising at every level of Labour for a new politics built on accountability, principle, humility and a transformative vision for the country.
Introducing Mainstream's NPF candidates - a team who will fight tirelessly for a new politics 👇
All those involved in the disastrous appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US must be held to account, and it is right that personnel in Number 10 most supportive of Mandelson face consequences. We now need to tear out the regressive politics of elite privilege and toxic factionalism that enabled this scandal - and which will only produce more - root and branch.
A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council on the departure of Morgan McSweeney from Number 10.
The appointment of Peter Mandelson was the direct result of a corrosive political culture that must be torn out by its roots. A failure of this magnitude does not happen by accident. It requires a system that elevates factional loyalty over integrity, that values connections over character and that treats rigorous vetting as an inconvenience. Everyone who participated in this process - from those who championed the appointment, to those who turned a blind eye, to those who silenced doubts in the name of political convenience - must be held to account. The politics of deference and backroom patronage enabled this. A culture that fears internal challenges enabled this. A mindset that puts party management before moral clarity enabled this. All of it must end. While this is a systemic failure, those who designed and operated the system cannot evade consequence. True accountability means a total overhaul of personnel, of process and of the rotten priorities that brought us here. We will not settle for less.
It's time for true accountability.
Those who participated in the appointment of Mandelson - from those who championed him, to those who turned a blind eye, to those who silenced doubts in the name of political convenience - must be held to account.
Peter Mandelson represents an old politics of elite privilege, spin and toxic factionalism taken to its most grotesque conclusion. While working people faced the fallout of a financial crisis he helped manage, he was exchanging power and access with a convicted criminal. And then, despite all this, he was handed one of the most powerful diplomatic posts on the planet. This is an affront to all victims and survivors of sexual violence and exploitation. This is a fundamental betrayal of the people we are meant to serve. It shows a party culture that too often rewards connections over character and factional loyalty over basic integrity. Our members feel this betrayal deeply. They joined Labour to transform the country, not to watch it succumb to the same old sickness. That era must end now. It’s time for a clean break. We need a Labour Party led by its members, built on transparency, principle and radical change.
We need a Labour Party led by its members, built on transparency, principle and radical change.
We need representatives on our NEC and NPF who will fight for that democratic, member-led future. Pledge your support to bring that future to life: actionnetwork.org/forms/mainst...
Is Denmark's asylum policy an exemplar or a warning for the UK? ❓❔❓
We were pleased to explore this question today at Mainstream's February parliamentary seminar, with speakers from @ippr.org, @futuregovforum.bsky.social and Mälardalens University.
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
Elizabeth Dennis takes on the flaws in Labour's Financial Inclusion Strategy and why it needs to deliver.
