2026 NEC and NPF Elections

As an NEC member of two years, I’ve celebrated our wins, but challenged too. My views have been grounded in good governance, democracy, and Labour Party values. Values of social and environmental justice, equity, and transparency.

I will continue to uphold members’ views, representing them effectively, alongside my Mainstream colleagues.

I bring experience of being an ex: councillor, CLP & Branch Executive member. I’m an active SERA member, West Sussex Co-operative Party Branch Secretary, and sit on the Executive of Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform. In my day job as a charity leader, I work with over 50 volunteers, building shared vision, teamwork, and collaborative leadership skills vital for negotiation and co-production.

I’ve helped drive improvements to NEC safeguarding policy and procedures. I am committed to increasing access to party roles and systems for those protected under the Equalities Act, while recognising intersectionality too. At this critical moment of our party’s moral direction, we must retain members and inspire young people facing an escalating environmental crisis to join, stay and vote for our party. I shall uphold member’s values with my Mainstream colleagues, through pluralistic dialogue across the party, unions, and affiliates.

Supporting: Elizabeth Dennis, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Kerry Postlewhite.

I joined the Party in the 1980s. I grew up leafleting, and our front room was often a committee room. Labour has always been part of my life.

I’ve been active in many ways: in Labour Students; working for Labour councillors; supporting Socialist MEPs in Brussels. I’ve campaigned in countless elections, was a 2024 parliamentary candidate, knocked doors in by-elections and now the Senedd elections. Part of Hereford & South Herefordshire CLP, I volunteer in my community.

I’m Chair of Mainstream because Labour is best when broad, open and confident in its values. I took time away over Iraq, but returned because Labour remains the only party that can transform working people’s lives.

These elections matter. The NEC must reflect Labour’s core principle: by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone.

I’m a member of the Co-operative Party, SERA, LME, LCID, LAWS, LWN, Community and the GMB.

As CLP representative, I would speak up for all members. Winning in 2024 was huge - now we must step up, be bold, tax wealth, bring essential services into public ownership, end child poverty and deliver the change we promised.

I joined the Labour Party in 2014. I had seen the impact that austerity was having in my community in Birmingham and the Black Country.

I’m Labour through and through. I’ve campaigned for Labour, worked for Labour and stood for Labour as our 2024 parliamentary candidate against Farage.

After a generation in opposition, we have a historic opportunity to transform ourcountry. For too many, the status quo hasn’t worked. We need bold ideas to revitalise our broad church in order to renew Britain.

From young people to pensioners, employed people to those out of work, many feel left behind. Our movement has historically championed the ordinary, the aspirational, and the less privileged. We can and must do that today.

That’s why I’m standing for Labour’s NEC. To promote big ideas and action, and the democratic culture needed to bring these to life in an age of huge new challenges.

Labour governments only succeed when we are a broad church, and when all across our movement feel empowered to build our vision together. I will be a voice for every member and tirelessly defend Labour values.

I’m also backing Kerry, Cat and, in the councillors section, Elizabeth.

Labour is strongest when united around delivering change that restores power, dignity, and opportunity to every community. With elections and local government reorganisation on the horizon, we face a crucial opportunity to strengthen democracy.

As councillors, we see how Labour in office improves lives and how far trust muststill be rebuilt. I’m standing because councillors deserve a strong voice at theheart of our party, shaping the decisions that affect those we serve. I bringexperience of leading a council, serving as finance lead for the District Councils’Network and campaigning for Labour in local government.

In 2024, I was proud to champion the reintroduction of councillor pensions, but the next step is ensuring more people can serve sustainably. Fair, consistent allowances widen who can stand, support councillors through reorganisation, and balance financial responsibility. A national framework will end councillors voting on their own allowances, which has too often been used to penalise those who serveour communities.

My pledges:

• Strengthen councillors’ influence in party decisions.
• Protect meaningful local democracy.
• Deliver a truly fair national councillor allowances framework.

For a strong team on the main ballot, please also support Kerry Postlewhite, Jovan Owusu‑Nepaul and Cat Arnold.

Now is the time to bring new politics to life.

I’m standing because we need to elect people who will champion party democracy and transparency within the National Policy Forum and help develop a genuinely transformative vision for our country.

I am currently in my second term as a district councillor and leader of my Labour group, but my political activism began earlier, when I witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of austerity on the schools where I taught. That experience shaped my belief that we need bold policy challenges - not minor tweaks that merely manage decline.

As a small business owner, I see every day how the system is rigged to reward those with the deepest pockets. I am not a career politician. I believe in a better world built through increased engagement, grassroots participation, and collective action.

I am a longstanding trade union member, have held key roles in my local Labour branch and Constituency Labour Party, and am proud to be a member of the Co-operative Party.

I would be honoured to receive your support. I also encourage support for Michael Durrant and Mainstream’s NEC candidates: Cat Arnold, Kerry Postlewhite, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (CLP section); Elizabeth Dennis (councillors’ section).

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I am proud to be endorsed by Mainstream for the NPF. Labour needs a policy process that listens to members and tests policies before they reach the public. Working in the NHS, I see how weak scrutiny produces poor outcomes. Recent technocratic choices have damaged Labour; members must be engaged in policymaking.

As your NPF representative, I bring experience in policy development and improvement across the NHS and local government. As a District Councillor and Chair of our Communities Scrutiny Committee, and with my professional background in Mental Health policy development, I understand how decisions are shaped, tested and implemented. I work daily with the kinds of questions the NPF considers, from shifting care into the community to tackling inequalities. My involvement in local government reorganisation has strengthened my understanding of national and local policy. As a GMB representative, I have experience examining policy, advocating for members and providing practical scrutiny.

I pledge to reconnect the policy development process with CLPs, ensure members’ voices are central and rebuild a culture where Labour’s platform reflects our values. This is the heart of radical realism: ambitious, practical and just. I endorse the Mainstream NPF candidates and NEC nominees Cat, Kerry, and Jovan.

I am standing for election to Labour’s National Policy Forum because I would like to see policy creation that is democratic, open and focused on delivery.

As a Labour councillor, I see how national decisions affect communities on the ground. The NPF must ensure Labour’s values are translated into practical, workable policies that improve people’s lives and can be delivered effectively in government, bringing our members and supporters with us - policies we can be proud of.

Labour is strongest when it is a broad church: confident in its values, open to debate and serious about governing well. The NPF should support dialogue between members, affiliates, local government and Parliament, strengthening trust and improving policy outcomes.

At a time when faith in politics is fragile, Labour must show that we can govern competently and inclusively - renewing public services, tackling inequality and strengthening local democracy, while protecting the environment for future generations.

I am proud to support the wider Mainstream NPF slate, and our NEC candidates Cat Arnold, Kerry Postlewhite and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul.

I’m standing for the NPF on the Mainstream slate because our communities need a Labour Party that knows what it stands for. We need an honest, transparent policy agenda that restores hope, rebuilds trust and puts Labour back where we belong: shaping the future, not reacting to it.

We should be proud of our values. Labour founded the NHS, built the welfare state, transformed workers’ rights and lifted millions out of poverty. At our best, we’ve been bold, practical and driven by the belief that government can and should change lives for the better.

It’s time for a clear shift. For too long, national debate has been shaped by reacting to Reform, but we’ll never out-Reform Reform. The answer isn’t to drift right, but to return to the Labour values that run through us like a stick of Blackpool rock.

We need a proactive agenda rooted in dignity, security and opportunity: well-paid, secure jobs; schools that prepare children for a thriving future; an NHS that delivers for everyone; and a caring, progressive society where nobody is left behind.

Bold. Believable. Deliverable.

I’m backing all Mainstream NPF candidates, and NEC candidates Cat Arnold, Kerry Postlewhite and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul.

At the next election, Labour will face a battle for the soul of our country.

I am standing for the NPF because I strongly believe we will only defeat right-wing populism and extremism by honouring our democratic socialist instincts: promoting social solidarity, strengthening community cohesion, tackling inequality, fighting misinformation and improving education.

Furthermore, I strongly support the role of local government in delivering these aims. We should take all layers of local government seriously, including parish councils, which are often a way for Labour representatives to build support from the bottom up.

My policy specialisms are in higher and further education, information technology, local government, planning, licensing and public safety.

I am a software solutions analyst currently working for a Cambridge-based business that digitizes content for university and college libraries. During 11 years as a town councillor I was chair of the planning committee. I am a member of the Metropolitan Police Independent Advisory Group for policing in football. I am actively involved in Epping For Everyone, which promotes community cohesion.

Please vote for the Mainstream slate in the NPF elections. For the NEC, I will be supporting Cat Arnold, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Kerry Postlewhite in the CLP section.

I’m standing for the NPF because I believe members should drive Party Policy.

As a local councillor and former CLP secretary I know that the experience in our membership holds the ideas and inspiration we need for the future. Labour must use government to transform our county with bold policies. We must pull from all the expertise we have in our party for new and fresh ideas and be innovative and true to our values.

As a Trade Union Lawyer and a Labour Councillor I hear daily the problems we’ve been left by the last Tory Government. Fixing their mess is going to take hard work and the breadth of the Labour movement to achieve.

If elected I want to reach out to local Parties and Members to encourage engagement in policy development. The NPF has too long been inaccessible to members, it should be part of the role of every representative on the NPF to reach out and get members involved - as your rep I would reach out to CLPs to encourage engagement.

I’m proud to be endorsed by Mainstream: please vote for their other London nominee, Panny, and NEC candidates Cat, Kerry and Jovan.

@EmmaWhysall

I am standing for the NPF as I have significant experience in policy formulation and implementation and am dedicated to the core Labour values of democracy, pluralism, and transformative change.

I have written for Fabian Society and FEPS publications, winning the Jenny Jeger Prize in 2023 for my work on intergenerational fairness. I also managed the APPG for SME Housebuilders and set up the Young Fabians’ Housing & Infrastructure Network. Additionally, I helped write SERA’s 2022 rewilding pledges which have been adopted by Labour Councils across the country.

I also served on the Young Fabians Executive Committee as the International and Outreach Officer, strengthening links with think tanks and sister organisations in PES. As Bureau member for the Young European Socialists, I was instrumental in hosting international events in London and strengthening cooperation post-Brexit.

More recently, I founded the Centre for International Security and Defence Studies –the UK’s first progressive defence and security think tank strengthening Britain’s role in building a safer, more resilient, and more just international order. Here we focus on protecting democracy, supporting allies, and preparing for future threats through cooperation, resilience, and sustainability.

Please also support the other Mainstream candidates for the NPF and NEC.

I am standing for the National Policy Forum to ensure Labour wins elections with a clear, credible plan for government. I am a Labour and Co-operative councillor with experience on scrutiny, pension and area committees, including oversight of a substantial budget. I also serve as Chair of a regional trust board and as a non-executive director of a community interest company. My experience has shown that policy must be grounded in clear principles, guided by political direction, and designedfor practical delivery.

I am standing with Mainstream to support the government to transform our country and take on the populist right. Labour must offer a popular, principled, and practical left politics for meaningful change. Politics is not just about managing what exists, it is about leading with purpose and values. We all want to see Labour winning, but without a coherent policy platform and clear political direction we risk being unclear about what we stand for.

My focus would be where I have practical experience like growth where I bring a strong interest in community wealth building, co-operative approaches, and public ownership that strengthens local economies.

I am proud to support Mainstream’s wider NEC and NPF slate of candidates.

I am proud to stand for the NPF with the backing of Mainstream. As a Labour member for over a decade and a local Councillor, I see daily why our party must urgently reconnect with its democratic socialist roots. Those values delivered real change, from the NHS and Equal Pay to the Open University and stronger employee rights.

Recently, we have been too hesitant to champion the bold policies that helped secure our 2024 victory and that continue to enjoy strong public support. From public ownership of key utilities to a fair wealth tax, we must be more ambitious and confident about the future we want to build.

I hope you will support me, the wider Mainstream NPF slate, and our excellent NEC candidates Cat, Kerry and Jovan.

I am Josh Constable, and I need your help to save the Labour Party!

I’m 29, live in Portsmouth and work in the NHS. I am a trade union repand Labour Link officer with Unison. I joined on election day 2015 and have spent every year since campaigning, organising, and fighting for our party.

Mistakes have distracted from the amazing accomplishments of this government. Some of these mistakes would not have happened if we had a stronger relationship between our movement and our policy process. Your voice matters. Let’s work together to get our party back to the radical realism that makes Labour both electable and transformative.

I need your help to champion policies including: local government in sourcing, constitutional and electoral reform, trade union rights, progressive tax reform, devolution.

If elected, I will champion transparency and accountability in party processes and direct member engagement. I’ll come to your CLP meetings, publish reports, and champion the policies we want to see this government deliver. That means every CLP in the South East, not just our flagship councils, we all deserve a say in our policy.

Please support my fellow Mainstream candidates for NEC and NPF this year!

Connecting Labour values to what we do when in power is essential, delivering with purpose, not shadowing our rivals.

We have a responsibility to deliver change through pluralist not popularist policy-making, taking ideas from across our movement, stop beingdefined by polling, find the confidence to believe in radical change, being bold.

Offering campaign and professional experience in equality and social justice, health and local government policy, would be complimented by my lived experience of disability and discrimination.

For me, responding to exclusion is about policy backed by law, delivered by structural reforms and inclusive practices.

For me it is also about standing up for people’s rights, rather than protecting the wealthy and powerful, implementing anti-corruption and transparency, independent press regulation, and following through on Public Inquiry inertia.

Joining Labour in 1981, I’ve been active with several CLPs and socialist societies, including Fabians and Co-operative Party. Having served as Councillor and stood twice for Parliament in different constituencies (metropolitan and coastal rural), I bring a breadth of experience in developing policy.

I would welcome the opportunity to contribute, shaping evidence-based policy, engaging members more democratically and regaining public trust.

Please support Mainstream candidates: Emily, Josh (NPF); Kerry, Jovan,Cat (NEC).

The next few years stand to be a tough period for our party, and the nation, now more than ever our party must offer the public a genuine vision to counteract the rhetoric of Reform. Standing as part of this party’s mainstream, I’m standing for the NPF to enable members to have genuine input into the policy-making process of our party.

Last year, I spoke at conference to defend member’s right to directly elect the NPF. Our democratic policy forum is one of many features of this party that makes us unique to the likes of our opponents. It’s what gives us perspectives and insights from those actually affected by our policies. Whilst Conference decided to remove one-member one-vote from NPF CLP positions, we need members of the NPF dedicated to representing the wider membership.

I’ll work tirelessly to ensure discourse and collaboration lead our approach to policy on the NPF – I will be a pragmatic and sensible voice. I will work across factional lines to help ensure a vision of hope is established to counter Reform, support the most vulnerable and once again deliver another general election victory.

Please also support Cat, Jovan and Kerry, Labour’s Mainstream candidates.

I am standing for the NPF because I’m a socialist who knows that Labour is at its confident best as a broad church of ideas.

I have been a Party member for 29 years and a local councillor in Cardiff for 12. I am also a Unite workplace rep. I voluntarily help to run a charity that supports vulnerable people who need food, and demand has grown enormously.

My politics are driven by the knowledge that growing inequality damages communities and limits life chances. As a councillor, my case load is dominated by housing issues. We desperately need more social housing. With thousands in temporary accommodation, good‑quality social housing gives people a platform to succeed. We have a good story to tell by ending the Right to Buy in Wales and increasing the building of social homes; things are moving in the right direction, but we need to deliver more. My experience of chairing Cardiff’s Planning Committee means I feel I have something to contribute to this debate.

I want to be a members’ voice on the NPF, please support myself and colleagues from Mainstream and Welsh Labour Grassroots.

I’m standing for Labour’s National Policy Forum because our party is at its best when it listens to the whole movement - not just one small sliver of it.

I’m a Councillor in Stoke-on-Trent. I grew up on a council estate, below the breadline. But thanks to the last Labour Government’s drive to cut child poverty, I was enabled to develop a love of learning, become the first in my family to go to uni, and get on in life. I know the difference a Labour Government can make when it stays true to its values.

Now in Government again, we shouldn’t dilute our values or tack right because we think it might win back people who prefer Reform. We win when we’re clear about who we are and what we stand for: fairness, strong public services, standards in public life, and opportunity for every community.

The NPF needs voices rooted in lived experience. I want to help turn mainstream Labour values into practical policy that improves people’s lives.

I hope you’ll also consider voting for my Mainstream colleagues: Muhammad Ali for the NPF, and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Kerry Postlewhite and Cat Arnold for the CLP Section on the NEC.

As Labour members, we hear a lot about the NEC but relatively little about the NPF - this is something I believe should change. Our strength as a party and as a movement is built on our members, and our ability to channel the voices of ordinary people, turn them into policy and enact them in government. However, we’ve noticed the flaws in this process inrecent times, notably the messy saga around the scrapping of thetwo-child benefit cap.

I’m standing for the NPF to bring a young (yet experienced) voice into a forum which desperately needs fresh ideas and a more effective approach. I’m an economist with a professional background in health policy, as well as a West Midlands Representative on the Co-op National Members Council.

I’ll push the party to prioritise member-led policy, developed by people who are active in their communities and represent the very best of our movement. This is how we revitalise our party, encourage new members to join and demonstrate that we’re the only party who’ll take this country forward.

Please also nominate Lauren Davison for the NPF, and vote Cat Arnold, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Kerry Postlewhite for progressive voices on the NEC!

I am standing for election to the NPF to ensure that our policy platform reflects the whole movement. We are at our best when policy is built on values that represent our traditions. However, too often, we have seen the negative impact of policy decided by a narrow clique, with errors on matters such as WFA and PIP cuts which have damaged our core vote.

As someone who is reliant on 24/7 care support to enable me to live my life, I have specific interests in health and social care policy, ensuring this cycle of the NPF does everything it can to see the promise we made tofinally deliver a national care service is carried out!

I will use my experience serving the party at all levels, serving most recently on the REC on behalf of disabled members, and as a branch chair. I understand the importance of reconnecting us with our mainstream to ensure we remain radical whilst being realistic about the scale of the challenges we face as a party.

Please also support Mainstream’s NEC candidates, Cat, Kerry and Jovan, and all of Mainstream’s outstanding NPF candidates.