Rachel Garnham

85 MPs backed my Parliamentary motion for widespread sanctions on Israel. Thank you to everyone who contacted their MP to sign it. The motion is now closed but, with a new Parliamentary session starting, I’ll soon be launching a renewed campaign for sanctions. Watch this space!

Keir Starmer needs to go. But not through a Cabinet stitch-up or palace coup. And not through a snap leadership election run under rule changes designed by Morgan McSweeney/Labour Together in order to hand someone like Wes Streeting a coronation. My full interview on Sky.

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

This week in Cuba hospital patients dependent on ventilators died, as a direct result of the illegal US blockade. Really brave of David Taylor MP to spend the weekend posting snide comments about people delivering medical aid and raising awareness though.

For centuries, Eid prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque have marked one of the holiest days of the year for Palestinians. Now, for the first time since 1967, Israeli occupation forces have banned them—at the mosque and across Jerusalem’s streets—dispersing worshippers with violence. #EidMubarak

The Labour leadership has clamped down on Party democracy. A coalition of trade union leaders, Labour MPs and campaigners has launched a call to restore Labour members’ rights. 🌹JOIN US AT TOMORROW’S RALLY tinyurl.com/Rally4LabourDe…

Labour members silenced, party democracy shut down – and for what? So the party can chase the tail of the far-right. Join the Restore Labour Democracy Rally on Monday and demand change - with @LabourRachel @CLPD_Labour & voices from our movement ⬇️ tinyurl.com/Rally4LabourDe…

Tehran suffocates under a black rain - the literal fallout of US/Israeli aggression Bombing oil reserves isn't "defence" - it’s environmental terrorism When families shelter from toxic skies and children watch the rain turn black, call it what it is: a heinous war crime

On #IWD2026 I’ve written an article celebrating all the wonderful socialist feminists who’ve appeared on the Labour Left Podcast. Lots of fantastic women to listen to on #InternationalWomensDay2026 labourhub.org.uk/2026/03/08/mak…

Great picture of a giant of the labour movement ( Also pictured, Tony Benn) #IWD2026

After Labour's drubbing in Gorton, this is the response??? My party implementing policies that used to get you thrown out of the Tory party. Permanent refugee status to be scrapped by Shabana Mahmood theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

Blame for Labour’s defeat lies squarely with Keir Starmer and his clique. They put factional interests over having the candidate best placed to win, Andy Burnham. If Labour is to be the “Stop Reform” party, then the leadership must stop treating progressive voters with contempt - and start appealing to them. That means a return to real Labour values - through policies like a Wealth Tax, public ownership of energy and water, and an ethical foreign policy that are all popular with the public. And it means ditching the approach of trying to ape Reform and kicking the left, that has alienated so many people who have voted Labour previously.

The architects of Labour’s 3rd place last night are the Labour right. Their economic and social policy choices, their record on Gaza, their machine politics and their insistence on a narrow electoral definition of who the party needs to base itself on.

Hey, remember when Peter Mandelson was deemed fit to be our ambassador to the United States, but candidates for Parliament were blocked from being on a shortlist because they had liked tweets from Nicola Sturgeon saying she had recovered from Covid. The state of our politics.

Starmer’s faction of the Labour Party has used its top down power to rig the Gorton & Denton selection & exclude members. Today is a good day to watch the excellent @LabourRachel explaining why the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy is so important. 1/2 youtu.be/bibtVyTHrz0

I’ve declined all media for the last 48 hours because I didn’t want the Burnham issue to be dragged into Left /Right stereotypical reporting. It isn’t that. It’s a straightforward power without principle struggle waged by the clique of advisers around Keir Starmer. 1/5

Everyone knows Andy Burnham would have the best chance of beating Reform in Gorton and Denton. Fixing the selection to keep him off the ballot would be an affront to party democracy - and a sign nasty factionalism is a higher priority than reversing the rise of Farage and Reform

Today over 100,000 people joined us to march for Palestine in London. We won’t stop until Israel’s genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people is over and Palestine is free. 🇵🇸

Day one rights were promised. Labour must deliver them. If this concession becomes a precedent, business lobby groups will not stop there. My article for @LabourList 👇 labourlist.org/2025/11/day-on…

I organised workers for years before entering Parliament. Protection from unfair dismissal isn’t a luxury - it’s the most basic right. The decision to roll back from that doesn’t add up. Who is it we speak for? We promised Day One Rights - we should deliver them.