Labour Conference Blog 2018 - Labour International

Liverpool Liver building over the Mersey

The Labour Conference 2018 (Sun 23rd Sept to Wed 26th Sept) and the National Women’s Conference (Sat 22nd Sept) will take place soon in Liverpool.

Labour International attendees will be blogging here, live from the conferences when they start.

LI blogposts

Young Labour Conference Report

This year was my first Labour Party Conference. I wasn’t alone in this, seemingly every other speaker from the floor of conference began their speeches with “First conference, first time speaker”. Conference was the first time since rejoining the Labour Party three years ago that I’ve been fully immersed in…

Labour Party Conference 2018 Report

The Labour Party Conference this year was held in Liverpool, a city with a long history in the Labour movement. Over 13,000 people, 1,600 of them delegates, attended the conference to hear policy announcements from the shadow cabinet and to debate issues of policy and Labour Party organisation.. Labour International…

A Conference Visitor’s Poem

Friday: 7 am: Jenny, Jenny, wake up please! (Why did we stay up talking ‘til nearly three?!) We need to leave in half an hour No cup of tea, breakfast or a shower. Málaga airport: mega frustration Queues a mile long, no information, Confusion, noise and children crying Remind me…

Conference impressions …

“This was my favourite badge at conference harking back to the dark days of Oswald Mosley and this sign with ‘No’ instead of ‘More’ in windows of Bed and Breakfast or rented properties.” Ann Bonner

LI members at Conference

This post is a work in progress. Adding photos as they arrive, so do drop by again! Rowan Shaw Kate Wregglesworth and Les Adams (both Spain) outside the Conference booth that should belong to us!

LI delegation waiting for the leader’s speech

Photo by Frank Bonner

Some reflections on the train leaving Labour Party Conference

Perhaps the most striking thing about the Conference was the number of people who began their speeches by saying “I am a first-time delegate and first-time speaker.” As one delegate expressed it, the people in the hall were “normal people”. People who faced all the problems of daily life in…

A view from a distance – Felicidades from Spain

I know I am biased but I thought Jeremy Corbyn was just brilliant at conference today. He is the next Prime Minister of Britain, a man talking rational common sense and the people in the conference hall knew it, people like me watching at home knew it and even the…

PCS President Janice Godrich with Ann Bonner

My friend Janice has been re-elected 17 times as president of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union. She chaired the PCS Rally at Labour Party Conference. The rally featured trade union speakers Matt Wrack (Fire Brigades Union, FBU) and Mark Serwotka (PCS) plus Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Marsha de…

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