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It’s an absolute honour to serve as your local government reps on NEC. For strong, accountable Councillor voices please re-elect myself & Peter Wheeler. Ballots are out now. Read our pledges & get involved Claireandpeterfornec.com Thank you 🙏🏼 🥰🌹

Huge congratulations to Bev Craig! Bev’s victory shows us that the politics of delivery and hope defeats the divisiveness of Reform and the Greens. Greater Manchester, you’ve made the right choice 🐝🌹

Today Andy Burnham will announce the biggest transfer of powers & funding from Whitehall back to our communities. Importantly this means elected mayors will get more financial powers making the devolution dividend a reality. Power closer to people rather than Whitehall deciding.

Being on the NEC is a privilege and also a responsibility. A few thoughts from Andy Burnhams first meeting with the NEC this week [and yes, excited about the devolution revolution] .....

We’re all behind you Bev 🌹 If you can make some calls and knock some doors please do. Bev will be a fantastic Mayor, she represents the best of our movement.

So much energy in this campaign....@bevcraig is going to be a brilliant mayor. If you havent been out doorknocking for her get your skates on....just a few hours left @labtowin @UKLabour @progbrit

Today I voted for the @labtowin candidates in the Labour NEC election. Proud to do it! They're working for our party and should be voted for to continue their hard work!

Honestly, I appreciate that everyone on here wants to support their own candidates in the NEC internal ballot. But if you want to pretend that 2015-2019 was anything other than a hyper-factional, dysfunctional, hostile and racist episode in our Party, please don’t vote for me.🙏

Few questions have been raised about my record on the NEC, so here are just a few of the things I've worked on over the past four years: ➡️ Oversaw two cohorts of the Bernie Grant Programme, helping train 60 Black activists. ➡️ Interviewed more than 300 parliamentary and local government candidates, many of whom are now councillors, mayors and MPs. ➡️ Voted to implement the EHRC recommendations to root out antisemitism from the Labour Party. ➡️ Broadened the terms of reference of the NEC Equalities Committee so that class and socio-economic background are given greater consideration alongside protected characteristics. ➡️ Worked to revive BAME Labour, with more to say on that soon. ➡️ Currently supporting disabled members to secure a free shuttle bus service around Liverpool during Labour Conference. Will everyone agree with every decision I've made? Of course not. That's the nature of serving on the NEC. But I've always tried to act in what I believe is the best interests of the Labour Party and its members.

Great Labour NEC meeting yesterday. Asked @andyburnham to pick up where RDAs left off & reintroduce Regional Ministers and Regional Select committees. If we want a devo dividend we need MPs AND mayors to be part of the procees @anneliese_midge @SouthYorksMayor @JohnHealey_MP

I’m so proud to have lent my vote to this group of candidates, alongside the fabulous @elsieortong. They’ve been fantastic in listening to members that need it most, not least @AbdiDuale_’s work in reviving BAME Labour, which I know BAME members have needed for so long. Vote LTW!

Cast my votes for the NEC elections. Let's keep the party moving forward and keep changing it for the better. @angela4LME @_petermason @AbdiDuale_ @CampaignJane

Just voted in the #NEC ballot. Please support Angie Davies, Abdi Duale, Peter Mason and Jane Thomas

Just voted in the NEC elections! All the best 🌹🙌 @angela4LME / @CampaignJane / @AbdiDuale_ / @_petermason

Just voted for the @labtowin candidates in the NEC elections. 🌹 @angela4LME @CampaignJane @AbdiDuale_ @_petermason

Just finished today’s Labour National Executive meeting. We paid tribute to Keir Starmer for his leadership of the Labour Party and welcomed Andy Burnham, the new Labour Leader and Prime Minister. We also thanked Hollie Ridley for her service as our General Secretary. In the meeting, we agreed plans for Labour Party Conference in September, including rule changes. We also heard about our plans ahead of the Manchester Mayoral by-election on Thursday. Overall a positive meeting focused on how we win the next election.

Over the last few years, NEC members like @CampaignJane have been crucial in making us electable again as a party and keeping our collective focus on winning power! I'm proud to be first-preferencing Jane, along with the dynamic @AbdiDuale_ , @angela4LME and @_petermason 💖

Technically voted for all the candidates as I ranked all of them but @CampaignJane @angela4LME @AbdiDuale_ and @_petermason were my top four picks for the NEC.

Yesterday, I lent my vote to the fantastic @elsieortong and to the wonderful @CampaignJane , @angela4LME , @AbdiDuale_ and @_petermason - they’ve worked hard to deliver a version of our party that is driven, ambitious and has given so much to its young members like myself 🌹

All wonderful Labour people who have the best interests of the party at heart. Proud to support them