Author: Miranda

It’s now less than a week to go until the Labour Party will announce who its MPs, members and trade union affiliates have chosen to become our party’s next Deputy Leader.

Last night, I spent a couple of hours at the Unite (Amicus) HQ to continue telephone canvassing for Jon Cruddas.

It was incredible how many people still hadn’t voted.

There is definitely everything to play for in this contest and so I’ll try and make sure I get along to the phone banks at least one more time before Friday, to help get the Cruddas vote out.

If you haven’t voted yet, I’d urge you to cast your first preference vote for Jon Cruddas who is, put simply, the best candidate for the job.

Jon’s run a stonking campaign.

There’ll be a big celebration up in Manchester on Sunday whatever the result 🙂

Diane Abbott, Member of Parliament for Hackney North, celebrated her twentieth year in Parliament on Monday.

I was absolutely delighted to attend her reception, at the House of Commons, which was hosted by Gender Equality campaign organisation the Fawcett Society Continue reading “Celebrating Diane – Britain’s First Black Female MP!”

The 2007 Compass National Conference took place at the Westminster Central Hall on Saturday.

Like last year, as someone on the centre left of the Labour party, I found it stimulating and empowering and was glad to participate. The conference also again served to remind people about the politics and philosophy of the late Robin Cook, who is Compass’ political hero.

Below are a few pics and a bit of commentary about the sessions I attended Continue reading “Compass National Conference 2007”