Thoughts on Labour’s NPF Report ‘25

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Critically this article makes a call for a contemporary motion to #Lab25 modifying the NPF report conclusions on relationships with the European Union.

It also looks at the development of Labour’s Policy as its annual Conference approaches. It looks at the rules commitment to “voting in parts”, and reproduces an NPF report reference back motion on the subject of the relationship with the EU that I shall take to my local party. My motion calls to rejoin the single market immediately and to promise to rejoin the EU in the next manifesto.

Each year the Labour Party produce a report from the National Policy Forum which has a major responsibility for developing the manifesto. This year’s report can be found at NPF Report (https) or via my mirror. It has been written in a banal and non-actionable fashion but the party rules permit the report to be voted for in parts,

Chapter 3.III.2.G Party conference shall consider policy reports and draft reports as part of the rolling programme, the NPF report, the NEC annual report, NEC statements and development strategy. Conference has the right to refer back part of any document without rejecting the policy document as a whole.

I have been advised that each organisation can move one reference back per policy commission up to four commissions. Such reference backs should be…