A Socialist Abroad: May 2020

The NPF has launched it consultation exercise for 2020. It is inviting submissions until the end of June. Submissions should be posted to policyforum.labour.org.uk.

There are eight priority topics all of which relate to the impact of Covid-19. I am providing a link here to each of the documents in PDF format.

Economy, business and trade

Early years, education and skills

Energy, environment and culture

International

Health and social care

Justice and home affairs

Housing, local government and transport

Work, pensions and equality

Who Am I

I set up this site when I was seeking election to Labour's National Policy Forum. I am now proud to represent Labour International on the Forum.

I have been a member of the Labour Party since 1979. I was very active from the 1980s, including as Constituency Chair, Parliamentary Candidate and delegate to party bodies at District, County and regional level.

In the 1990s, my professional role in local government began to restrict my political activities but gave me the opportunity to work with Labour politicians for example successfully lobbying on the Maastricht Bill in the House of Commons or supporting councillors on the EU Committee of the Regions.

My career has been in economic development firstly at local and regional level and more recently in international development. I began lobbying Brussels for local government and I ended up based here in 1999. Apart from 3 years in Botswana, I’ve been here ever since.

I have a lot of policy development experience and worked with left-leaning think tanks over the years, contributing to conferences and seminars and organising fringe meetings at annual conference.

National Policy Forum consultation 2020