{"id":16586,"date":"2015-08-03T18:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2024-06-20T22:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:11:58","slug":"the-changing-face-of-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/political-parties-and-ideologies\/labour-party\/the-changing-face-of-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"The changing face of Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Something is changing within the Labour party, and Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s leadership campaign might just be a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, Labour\u2019s left wing in parliament has been represented by only a small handful of figures. Dennis Skinner\u2019s removal<\/a> from the national executive committee last year symbolised the divorce between Labour in parliament and the party\u2019s left. But over its five years in opposition, the political mood within the party has shifted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after the election, a group of the newly-elected Labour MPs signed a letter<\/a> to the Guardian<\/em> that declared: \u2018We need a new leader who looks forward and will challenge an agenda of cuts, take on big business and will set out an alternative to austerity.\u2019 Such sentiments have been almost taboo in the parliamentary party for some time. The letter was a bold declaration that the new MPs are drawing a line under New\u00a0Labour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new intake is the most left wing in years. Several of the new MPs have already started to shift the party\u2019s centre of gravity by boosting Jeremy Corbyn onto the ballot paper. Many of them are openly challenging austerity, are willing to criticise the leadership and are looking beyond parliament to achieve their vision. It has been many years since such a diverse group was elected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Blair-Brown years, candidate selection was tightly centralised. Talented left-wing politicians were either not promoted or were shut out of parliament entirely. Under Ed Miliband\u2019s leadership, the controls were relaxed as a means of democratising the party, allowing candidates from a much wider spectrum to be selected. The diversity of the new intake is partly due to these changes to the party\u2019s culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is also partly a reflection of the political atmosphere in the country. The years following the banking crash, characterised by welfare cuts, the bedroom tax, falling wages, legal aid cuts and food banks, have left people looking for real change. Many of the new intake have come to parliament through campaigning, and they share a sense of urgency about the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proud socialist<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Norwich South MP Clive Lewis speaks energetically about the opportunity to change Labour\u2019s direction. He describes himself as a \u2018proud socialist\u2019, and acknowledges that his way into parliament would have been barred before Miliband became leader: \u2018I definitely don\u2019t think I would have been selected in the middle of the Blair-Brown years.\u2019 But he has refused to temper his politics. A former vice president of the NUS, he first battled New Labour over student fees in 1997, and has remained a staunch critic ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Lewis\u2019s opposition to New Labour, the party was an important part of his political upbringing. Born into a working-class trade unionist family, he grew up respecting its achievements. \u2018The Race Relations Act 1976, the council house I lived in, the comprehensive school \u2013 everything came from a Labour government and Labour legislation,\u2019 he says. He argues that Labour\u2019s great failing is that it ceased to be a movement and has become simply a machine for winning elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Lewis is confident that there is an appetite within Labour for building a new movement. He talks about creating links with groups with which the left has traditionally had little dialogue. He argues that it should look for political allies from all points of the political compass \u2013 not just anti-austerity groups and the green movement, but the right: \u2018There are good, decent people on the right who are anti-corporatist and anti-big business, because they can see it isn\u2019t competitive, it isn\u2019t good for business, it isn\u2019t good for small and medium-sized companies.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Lewis, the danger of not doing so is clear: \u2018What we\u2019re now entering into is a new phase of neoliberalism. Under the old post-\u201945 settlement, it was about using taxation to redistribute and pay for public services. Now we are being told, after the crash, that we can\u2019t even afford that \u2013 we can\u2019t afford the debt \u2013 so therefore we\u2019re going to reduce the debt but not have the public services. We are moving back to a Victorian concept of the role of the state.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Smith, MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood, is similarly trying to build an anti-austerity movement that reaches out to groups beyond Labour. She argues that the party cannot combat the Tories\u2019 cuts alone. \u2018If we oppose austerity, we need to be working together. Let\u2019s face it,\u2019 she says, \u2018we\u2019re up against some pretty mighty forces, and we can\u2019t afford to be sectarian.\u2019
One of the youngest of the new intake, Smith is illustrative of the changing face of Labour. She is a campaigner who eschews the slick politics of the Blair era. She refuses to compromise Labour\u2019s core values for pragmatic reasons, and speaks scathingly of the leadership candidates who do. \u2018There are going to be some people in the Labour Party who for various reasons decide that we don\u2019t oppose certain things the Tories are doing for ‘strategic reasons’. But if it\u2019s the wrong thing to do, we shouldn\u2019t do it.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith describes her background as \u2018political, but not party political\u2019. She entered into politics at a young age through the third-world debt campaign, but she was sceptical of the national Labour message. She was persuaded to join the party in 2004 after being convinced that it was possible to change it from within, and she maintains that vision. She worked for Jeremy Corbyn \u2013 \u2018I think politics would gain a lot from more voices like Jeremy\u2019s,\u2019 she says \u2013 and has been busily organising his leadership campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Lewis, Smith might have been squeezed off the selection list during the Blair years. Instead, she ran and overturned the Tory majority in her constituency. But her perspective remains rooted in campaigning, and she is using methods she learned outside the party. She is involved with the Labour Assembly Against Austerity, a group based on the People\u2019s Assembly that aims to use Labour to promote political education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith says that the party needs to look closely at why it lost the election, but dismisses the idea the campaign was too left wing: \u2018No one said to me on the doorstep in Lancaster and Fleetwood, ‘I can\u2019t vote Labour because you\u2019re too left wing’. I did hear many times, ‘I can\u2019t tell the difference between you and the Tories’ or ‘You\u2019re all the same’. I heard that, but no one ever said, ‘You\u2019re too left wing’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The union link<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The new intake is soon likely to be tested by the threat to the party\u2019s relationship with the unions. Already, a group of MPs, including many of the new intake, has written to the New Statesman<\/em> calling for the union link to be defended, fearing a shift towards disaffiliation following the election\u00a0defeat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miners\u2019 strike veteran Harry Harpham knows how crucial the union movement is to the Labour Party. He was an NUM rep, and remained out on strike for a year in 1984-85. Once the strike ended, he left his home in Nottinghamshire. \u2018I knew I\u2019d find it difficult living among people who\u2019d crossed me on a picket line for 12 months,\u2019 he explains. ‘People I\u2019d grown up with, people I\u2019d gone to school with, people I\u2019d been out socialising with’. It was a proud moment when he secured the NUM nomination for his Sheffield constituency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harpham fears that the party is in danger of destroying its traditional links with the unions. \u2018People who say the unions are a problem have got it completely wrong. In my opinion, the union movement is a huge asset to us, and we should make sure we use it. They are the reason that we formed the Labour Party \u2013 so we could give a voice to ordinary working people.\u2019 He thinks the Tories\u2019 proposal to limit strike ballots will be fatal: \u2018They are formally outlawing strikes. It\u2019s a very dangerous, worrying time for trade\u00a0unions.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Harpham, the unions are Labour\u2019s real link to Britain\u2019s workers \u2013 the party\u2019s backbone \u2013 and the means by which it can reconnect with lost voters: \u2018One of the things we have got to do is to go out and talk to people, listen to what their concerns are, listen to what their everyday worries are, what their everyday struggles are and work with them to find the solutions to their problems. I see unions as being a huge part of that. The unions offer us a voice \u2013 an opportunity to talk to ordinary working\u00a0people.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is impossible to predict what effect the new MPs will have on Labour. Many of the party\u2019s monolithic structures persist, and the leadership campaign remains dominated by those who actively disavow Labour\u2019s left. But the spotlight on Jeremy Corbyn is shifting the language of the debate and creating opportunities for new voices to emerge within the party. One thing is clear: a new debate over Labour\u2019s future is\u00a0beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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