The removal of voices from the frontbench representing the majority of the party and PLP was unfortunate. Without hearing those voices behind closed doors, public division and rebellion becomes far more likely. I've voted for Lucy to ensure every part of the movement is heard.

🗳️🗓️Voting for Labour's next Deputy Leader is open until 23rd October. After winning 82.2% of the vote in a ballot of our members, Mainstream recommends a vote for Lucy Powell MP. Labour members should receive a link to vote by the end of today.

We asked Mainstream supporters why they're backing us to reconnect Labour with its core values and transformative potential. Here's Christine's response 👇

TODAY: vote for a broader, brighter and bolder Labour Party 🌹 Voting for Labour’s next Deputy Leader closes at MIDDAY today. Mainstream recommends a vote for Lucy Powell MP - who won 82.2% of the vote in a ballot of our members.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌹A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council on Labour's tragic loss in Caerphilly. We will be wiped out in Wales next May without a major reset.

Tomorrow, we’ll welcome The Labour Party’s new Deputy Leader. Let's be clear: they must be empowered to lead and do the job fully. We need an urgent return to our moral purpose and real change delivered now for our communities. #Labour #NewLeadership

🌹Mainstream's Interim Council sends its congratulations to Lucy Powell MP, whom we endorsed after a ballot of our members. This result must mark a shift toward a broader, bolder politics within Labour - so that we can build a democratic socialist programme to inspire the country.

🎧 LISTEN: Our National Coordinator, Luke Hurst, and member of Mainstream’s Interim Council, Neal Lawson, were on the airwaves yesterday making the case for a broader Labour Party reconnected with its mainstream. Only then will we transform the country and take on Reform.

Some thoughts from me for LabourList on Lucy Powell MP’s win on Saturday and the cultural turn it reveals in Labour. Members can see that the experiment in political centralisation pursued by a narrow group at the top risks driving us to electoral ruin. labourlist.org/2025/10/lucy-p…

We can't wait to meet Mainstream members and supporters in Sheffield tomorrow! 🌹 Register here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_event…

🌹🤔🤯Labour needs big, bold ideas fast, and we know that the mainstream of the party is brimming with them. Pitch your submissions on Labour Party policy, strategy and culture to the Mainstream blog: actionnetwork.org/forms/whats-yo…

To those MPs trying to lay claim to Mamdani’s victory: he’s a democratic socialist - not a mouthpiece for corporations & billionaires. If he were in the Lab party & hadn’t been expelled/suspended or hounded out - he’d almost certainly be in Mainstream Help us rebuild

🌹We welcome that the Labour whip has been restored to 💙Rachael Maskell MP, Chris Hinchliff MP, Brian Leishman and Neil Duncan-Jordan MP. We are clear: only by drawing upon the energy and talents of our whole movement will Labour succeed in transforming the country and taking on Reform.

✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog: Josh Westerling on 'The Real Lessons from Zohran Mamdani' Read it here: mainstreamlabour.org/blog/the-real-…

‘This polling lays bare the existential threat facing Labour and, more importantly, facing the country if we fail to win back the public.’ Member of Mainstream’s Interim Council Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley on polling showing that half of Labour’s 2024 voters are now backing other parties 📊

Had a great time at Co-operative Party Annual Conference today! Pride in Place and expansion of cooperatives are some of the things that Labour/Co-op members are most excited about - and have to be central to the government’s plans for redistributing power and wealth moving forwards