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.

"... we agree on something fundamental: that Labour succeeds when we are broad, open and pluralist" 🤝🌹 Mainstream's Chair and one of our NEC candidates, Kerry Postlewhite, writes with Cllr Minesh Parekh on the need for a meaningful Labour reset. labourlist.org/2026/03/a-rese…

Labour needs a reset in order to transform the country. Today, Mainstream’s three candidates for the CLP section of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) have joined others from all across the party in signing the Reset the Labour Party statement. resetlabour.co.uk

It was a real pleasure to hear @AngelaRayner give a keynote speech at our Spring social this evening. She’s delivered amazing things while in Government, and she’ll no doubt do more brilliant work in the future.

We’re really pleased to welcome @tonyvaughanMP at our Spring social this evening. One of Labour’s brightest new MPs who cares deeply about the intellectual and political renewal of the left. 🌹

“We cannot have a system where the child of a banker gets in after 3 years, and the child of a care worker after 15.” Massive applause to these words from @tonyvaughanMP at our Spring Social tonight on a better, fairer immigration policy 🌹

“If we want to succeed, we need to rebuild trust with our members and start drawing on the strength of the whole movement.” Incredible opening speech from our Mainstream Interim chair Kerry Postlewhite 🌹

Incredible to see so many people attending our Spring social in London this evening - the venue is buzzing with people who want to unlock this country’s progressive future!

💥We have some brilliant events scheduled for Mainstream members this month - including our March Organising Forum, the @UKTogetherAll national demonstration, and a workshop on political communication. See all upcoming events here: mainstreamlabour.org/latest/events

✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog: The NHS is a paragon of what Labour should be - and mental health should be given the same impetus that physical wellbeing was when the NHS was set up. This requires a National Mental Wellbeing Service, writes Rob Balfour. mainstreamlabour.org/blog/a-nationa…

Read in @NewStatesman here: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Labour must strengthen its living link with workers and organised labour so that we remain rooted in communities across the country. That's why we hosted Unite members in Parliament last month and it's why we must consolidate relationships with our trade union partners.

Labour cannot afford to keep ignoring its roots. A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council on Unite's decision to reduce its affiliation to the Labour Party 👇

"Insufficient serious work was done to prepare for government... Mainstream offers a space for the exploratory thinking that the party has squeezed out." Our National Coordinator @lukewillhurst and Interim Council Member Sue Goss make the case for Labour's intellectual base.

“Confronting the Gorton & Denton by-election result requires far more than managerial adjustment from Labour. It requires a decisive break with the political, cultural and economic settlement that has defined Britain since the 1980s.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog: 'Fixing party culture it won’t be easy, neither was the founding of the NHS; but if we managed that without quite so many WhatsApp groups', writes Maya Desai. mainstreamlabour.org/blog/our-fract…

Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis. This is the “Privatisation Premium”. Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵 common-wealth.org/publications/t…

Hand-wringing won't protect habitats. Lip service won't stop extinctions. I don't accept the endless chipping away of biodiversity. Enough is enough. Tell your MP: Don't cross these red lines!

🤔 Where next for Labour after Gorton & Denton? Join this discussion for Mainstream members with guests from More in Common, the New Statesman and Equity at 6.00pm tomorrow. Members can use the RSVP link sent via email to sign-up. Not yet a member? labourmainstream.nationbuilder.com/join