Mainstream

🌹📢 Introducing your 2026 Mainstream candidates for the NEC! Thank you to our members for participating in our ballot and voting to endorse a strong team of determined, progressive candidates for Labour's NEC. This year, let's reconnect Labour with its mainstream.

Today, Mainstream has released its newest publication, a thinkpiece from Daniela Gabor. Against Bond Vigilantes: Reclaiming UK Fiscal Space is a contribution to our wider network of ideas and debate. Read it here: www.mainstreamlabour.org/publications...

A comment from Mainstream's Interim Council on the Government's Budget.

A comment from Mainstream's Interim Council and SERA on the approval of the Jackdaw Gas Field 👇

✍️ NEW ON THE MAINSTREAM BLOG: Britain's psychological wards are a significant problem within the country's mental health and care crisis. But Labour can fix it, writes Cianan Whelan. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/psychia...

✍️ NEW ON THE MAINSTREAM BLOG: The choice is often presented as either welfare spending or warfare spending. But it shouldn't be that dichotomous, writes Labour Digital Rights Network's Charlie Davies. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/rearmam...

Thank you to the hundreds of you who joined us Monday to celebrate Mainstream's first year. In just twelve months, we've helped shape the Labour Party taking form today. Now we’ll do what Ed suggested: support and pressure. That’s how we’ll transform the country.

Our friends at @serauk.bsky.social challenging the CAC’s decision to rule out our joint motion calling for public ownership of water. Privatised water has failed. We need public ownership now - and Labour must be able to debate bold ideas to achieve real change. #LabourConference2026

We’re deeply concerned that Conference has been denied the opportunity to debate public ownership of water. That faction-driven procedure can stifle debate on essential services should concern everyone who wants Labour to be a confident, outward-looking movement.

We need to find ways of rekindling a fertile relationship between Labour and the wider world of progressive ideas. Mainstream have initiated just such an engagement project. renewal.org.uk/blog/labour-...

Mainstream's statement on Joe Fortune being set to become the next General Secretary of the Labour Party.

We send our deepest condolences to the Prime Minister and his family.

✍️ NEW ON THE MAINSTREAM BLOG: Corporate governance may not be at the top of any politico's agenda - but it should be, writes Tanweer Ali and Andrew Johnston. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/corpora...

A statement from Mainstream on the exclusion of Emily Brothers, one of Mainstream's NPF candidates, from standing for the women's section of the NPF. www.mainstreamlabour.org/updates/emil...

Mainstream exists to rebuild Labour and offer a popular, principled and practical left politics for meaningful change. If you're a delegate that wants to help us transform our party, vote for NPF candidates at this year's Labour Conference 🌹

We're taking a stand for public ownership of water. 💧 If this Labour Government wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism, we must start by returning services like water into public ownership.‍ Help champion our water motion at Labour conference: actionnetwork.org/forms/ill-ch...

✍️ NEW ON THE MAINSTREAM BLOG: The same economic system that too often treats workers as disposable can also treat animals as units of production, writes Mainstream's Interim Council Chair Kerry Postlewhite. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/why-ani...

Heading to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference this month? 🌹 🔜 Make sure you RSVP for Mainstream's panel discussion and rally, both on Monday 28th Sept. www.mainstreamlabour.org/latest/events

This week we held our first ever @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social Hackney meeting. Brilliant to be with @labouruk.bsky.social people talking about our hopes and fears for the world & how we can change things. Our statement of principles: drive.google.com/file/d/1v0sQ...

🌹🗳️ Labour members have voted for a much more diverse, open and pluralistic NEC. We thank everyone who supported the Mainstream team in these elections! Kerry and Cat will honour the trust you have placed in them.

📪 NEC election voting is now closed! Thank you to every member who voted, shared, and made the case for a Labour Party reconnected with its mainstream. Results to follow - we'll share them as soon as they're announced.🌹

Exactly why the @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social team is standing for the Labour NEC, to make sure every member feels seen, heard and respected. Less than 24 hours until ballots close!

If you’re a Labour member , there’s Less than a day left to vote for your National Executive representatives. @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social

🚰 ❌ England's broken water system can't be fixed without ending privatisation. That's why we're taking a stand for public ownership at Labour Party Conference. Ask your CLP to send our contemporary motion to Conference 🌹 actionnetwork.org/forms/ill-ch...

Thank you to @labourlist team for a great experience on my first podcast. If you haven't voted for me, please consider it by 27th August at noon. Your email ballot would have come from labourelections@cesvotes.com.

We are Labour's radical realists🌹 We want to give the majority of our party - who stand for the redistribution of power & wealth, the defence of human rights & the creation of a new political economy - its voice. If you do too, vote for the Mainstream slate on the NEC by Thursday noon.

Voting in this year's NEC elections closes in ONE WEEK! 🌹 Already voted for Mainstream and want to help get the word out? Share your endorsement with us: actionnetwork.org/forms/i-vote...

I am absolutely delighted the Prime Minister has announced everyone sleeping rough will be brought in this winter. When it comes to tackling a crisis like out current homelessness emergency we need bold action exactly like this.

By the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone. 🌹🤝 Agree? Vote Kerry Postlewhite, Cat Arnold, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Cllr Elizabeth Dennis for Labour's NEC. Watch our campaign video to find out more 📺👇

Our NEC candidates are clear about what kind of change they want to bring to Labour. Vote Cat, Jovan & Kerry 1–3 in the CLP section.

Have you watched our campaign video yet? 📺📺📺 This is why we're organising in this year's NEC elections 👇👇👇

Vote Kerry Postlewhite, Cat Arnold, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Cllr Elizabeth Dennis for Labour's NEC.

By the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone. 🌹🤝 Agree? Vote Kerry Postlewhite, Cat Arnold, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Cllr Elizabeth Dennis for Labour's NEC. Watch our campaign video to find out more 📺👇

💧We're working with @serauk.bsky.social to take a stand for public ownership of water at this year's Labour Party Conference. Table our contemporary motion in your CLP today: actionnetwork.org/forms/ill-ch...

May's local elections elections were a bad night for Labour. in Hackney, this may have been the results of successes, not failures, writes James Bartholomeusz. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/the-lab...

Congratulations to @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social, whose tireless campaigning for an end to 'Aim to Permit' will now help to transform high streets across the country 💗✊🌹

Thanks so much @mineshparekh.bsky.social for the endorsement. Councillors like Minesh work so hard for our communities, I will always advocate for their voices at NEC. Find out more about my NEC work here: catarnold.co.uk

Meet Elizabeth🌹 Council leader, DCN finance lead, and the candidate fighting for councillors to have a real voice in Labour. If you’re a Labour member in local government, vote Cllr Elizabeth Dennis for Local Gov rep.

Too many members still don't know how decisions get made, or who's accountable for them. Our candidates will push for transparency and accountability at the top of the party, and for local parties to have a real say over selections and policy. labourlist.org/2026/06/nec-... 🌹

We are thrilled that members of @openlabour.bsky.social have voted decisively to merge with Mainstream. The movement for a more pluralist and democratic Labour Party that can transform the country is becoming stronger each day. labourlist.org/2026/08/open...