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🏳️‍🌈 New: @LGBTLabour has made the "difficult decision" to suspend its annual general meeting and committee elections, amid worries of legal action over trans candidates running for roles reserved for women.

🥀 Delegates at the union's policy conference backed an emergency motion calling on Unite to "discuss our relationship with Labour"

RT @Jonathan_Hinder: Reform and Tory numbers are very interesting 👇.

🌹"Once again, this is all about saving money – and doing so on the backs of some of the poorest and most severely ill people in the country.". Read @RichardBurgon on the welfare reform bill here:.

📢"Those who cannot work absolutely should be protected from any loss of income, but we need a serious discussion on reforming it.". Read @SEANLWOODCOCK on welfare reform here:.

🏳️‍⚧️ A new Trans Rights Alliance group is backing a large @transalliance25 slate of candidates in the upcoming LGBT+ Labour committee elections, including the organisation's current trans officer. More details here:.

"The learning curve is steep, especially when half the rules are unwritten and rely on someone telling you after you’ve already broken one!". Read @sam_carling_ here:.

🌹"The death of David Lipsey while swimming in the River Wye closes an era of Labour history.". Read @DenisMacShane here:.

RT @UKLabour: And we're only just getting started.

🌹"The Labour Party is, and perhaps forever will be, tied to the NHS and its fortunes.". Read more here:.

🌹Unlike the right, the left is a crowded field, with multiple parties carving out their own corner. @LucRaghallaigh and @tom_belger on what polls and pollsters suggest about Sultana's and Corbyn's prospects:.

🥬 "Within days of the General Election being announced I was confident Truss would lose.". ✍️ @CllrTerryJermy .

🌹 "Despite the fact that we were obviously going to win, last summer’s election campaign felt worse than many others I have been involved with.". ✍️ Morgan Jones.

RT @LabourList: 🌹 The contest to be the next Labour leader of London’s Southwark council could be re-run over claims of ballot rule breach….

RT @Joe_Dromey: The public finances are under pressure. ✂️ big spending cuts are not sustainable. 💷 changing the fiscal rules risks incre….

🌹 The contest to be the next Labour leader of London’s Southwark council could be re-run over claims of ballot rule breaches, LabourList understands, after a rare victory for a left-wing candidate under Keir Starmer’s leadership. H/t @Southwark_News.

RT @PippaCrerar: Rachel Reeves had a brief altercation with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ahead of PMQs, as others have also heard. The ch….

💷 "With public finances coming under growing pressure, the Chancellor has three options.". ✍️ @Joe_Dromey .

🌹 From paternity leave to women’s toilets, the 2024 intake of Labour MPs aren’t afraid to challenge traditions and taboos.