LABOUR is launching a “deeply damaging attack” on the rights of its black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) members by resurrecting the “moribund and discredited” BAME Labour group, campaigners have charged.
Grassroots group Momentum branded proposals passed at a meeting of the party’s national executive committee today a “travesty of justice which would disenfranchise thousands of BAME members and deny their democratic voice” in Labour.
It warned that reviving BAME Labour would betray recommendations – backed at the party’s 2018 annual conference – to replace the body with a democratic BAME wing and a policy-making annual conference for eligible members.
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT


