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Change:NOW! was a historic, hopeful moment for progressives.
On 30th May, we brought together 800+ campaigners, thinkers, politicians and activists to build the movement for a more democratic future.
At a moment of profound political and economic division, we showed that the values that unite progressives are stronger than the forces pulling us apart. Together, we can build a bold, pragmatic agenda capable of uniting people against the far right.
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At our conference last year, Andy Burnham spoke to the need to renew working class ambition.
Today he spoke of it as Prime Minister in his speech at Labour Conference.
Alongside a National Commission on Electoral Reform and public ownership in the water industry.
A couple of weeks back, over 450 people had the pleasure of hearing Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham's (@AndyBurnhamGM) keynote speech at CHANGE: HOW? A Decade of Radical Renewal.
In it, he spoke to working class ambition and how it can be restored:
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Andy Burnham closed out our conference 16 months ago with a speech outlining the wholesale reform Britain needs - electoral reform, the public ownership of water, a national housebuilding programme. We hoped he could give it on the party conference stage sooner rather than later. We backed him to do this.
18 months on, we are utterly vindicated in that decision.
Here, the public gets what it has been crying out for. A Prime Minister no longer tinkering around the edges but committing to actual political, economic and social reform.
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Compass retweeted
💥 BREAKING: @andyburnham just announced that the Government will launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📰 Press release: labourforanewdemocracy.org.u…
🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab26
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We're speaking about public ownership of water at #LabourConference2026 w/@SERAUK, @sascampaigns & @labourlewis. Our privatised water system is broken. 92% of Labour members back public ownership.
Lower bills, cleaner rivers, real accountability, and a break from 40 years of neoliberal failure.
Just like Andy Burnham promised.
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"Mutualisation sounds great but when you lift the veil… it’s a cop-out."
@labourlewis MP for Norwich South @serauk
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“Workers have been at the forefront of making sure we have decent water”
@labourlewis MP for Norwich South @serauk
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"This is a negotiation and it takes political will. But this Labour Government needs to show it can do difficult things."
Lena Swedlow, Compass Deputy Director #LabourConference2026 @SERAUK
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"Our campaign has grown from a handful of MPs up to 70-80 MPs now willing to stick their heads about the parapet to support public ownership."
That's not enough, but it shows we're growing momentum fast.
@labourlewis MP for Norwich South @serauk
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"All the evidence shows that monopoly privatisation is not compatible with a decent public service."
@labourlewis MP for Norwich South @serauk
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"We're late to the transition to public ownership. Across Europe, there's been so many examples of water being brought back into public ownership - in many different ways."
Lena Swedlow, Compass Deputy Director #LabourConference2026 @serauk
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"Andy Burnham wants to end neoliberalism. What’s more neoliberal than privatised water?"
So why are we kicking public ownership down the long grass?
@labourlewis MP for Norwich South @serauk
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Compass retweeted
New report form @CompassOffice on progressive policy options for the Burnham government. I've written with @beth_stratford on rent controls, property tax reforms and a national publicly owned housing corporation.
compassonline.org.uk/publica…
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Thank you for coming @EllyBakerAM, and for your fantastic contributions!
Pretty chuffed to share a stage with @MarkDrakeford yesterday to talk about how we navigate our increasingly fragmented politics.
Thanks @CompassOffice for having me and for attendees insightful questions!
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"The last few years have taught us that the political settlement that built Labour has changed."
In a multi-party system, it's likely no Burnham bounce will hand Labour a majority in 2029. Could it lead a progressive majority instead?
Let's get into it.
Lena Swedlow, Compass Deputy Director #LabourConference2026
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"People in Caerphilly were determined that Reform would not win there … In expressing that determination, they didn’t vote for us.
We need to be authentically Labour, to say the sort of things and stand for the sort of things that people who’ve voted for us for 100 years believed they were voting for."
@MarkDrakeford, Former First Minister of Wales #LabourConference2026
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"If we don't genuinely empower local councils, whatever we do at a national level will fail... People don't feel control over their daily lives and there is no way for people to express that."
@EllyBakerAM, London Assembly Member #LabourConference2026
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"Labour has been the party of devolution throughout the country, but we don't have devolution within our own party."
@MarkDrakeford , Former First Minister of Wales #LabourConference2026
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What Labour can bring when working with other progressives:
"[Because of our history] we have a belief in collective action. How people organise and act together. We can be at the forefront of the organising."
@markdrakefordwales, Former First Minister of Wales #LabourConference2026
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"If we can’t work with ourselves, how are we going to work with others who we need to work on issues with?"
@EllyBakerAM, London Assembly Member #LabourConference2026
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The amount of NEU members who voted Labour in 2024 was 60%.
That number went down to barely 18% in latest polling.
Debra Beale, National President of the @NEUnion herself left the Labour Party after Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech in 2025.
#LabourConference2026
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