Rachel Garnham

Jeremy Corbyn supporter. Former Labour NEC member. @CLPD_labour co-chair. UCU activist. This account for politics not work.

[Arise - a festival of Left Ideas @arise_festival]

On Wednesday, join @MENBurke from @SocEconB, @STWuk Officer/former @RMTunion President @AlexGordon4Me & @CLPD_Labour's @LabourRachel for our online forum looking at the relationship between opposing Trump's war drive & defending living standards- register: https://t.co/1jdpCSYe2C

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

85 MPs backed my Parliamentary motion for widespread sanctions on Israel.

Thank you to everyone who contacted their MP to sign it.

The motion is now closed but, with a new Parliamentary session starting, I’ll soon be launching a renewed campaign for sanctions. Watch this space!

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Keir Starmer needs to go.

But not through a Cabinet stitch-up or palace coup.

And not through a snap leadership election run under rule changes designed by Morgan McSweeney/Labour Together in order to hand someone like Wes Streeting a coronation.

My full interview on Sky.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

This week in Cuba hospital patients dependent on ventilators died, as a direct result of the illegal US blockade.

Really brave of David Taylor MP to spend the weekend posting snide comments about people delivering medical aid and raising awareness though.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

For centuries, Eid prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque have marked one of the holiest days of the year for Palestinians.
Now, for the first time since 1967, Israeli occupation forces have banned them—at the mosque and across Jerusalem’s streets—dispersing worshippers with violence. #EidMubarak

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

The Labour leadership has clamped down on Party democracy.

A coalition of trade union leaders, Labour MPs and campaigners has launched a call to restore Labour members’ rights.

🌹JOIN US AT TOMORROW’S RALLY

https://t.co/Iq3SpFRNqQ

[Labour Assembly @labourassembly]

Labour members silenced, party democracy shut down – and for what?

So the party can chase the tail of the far-right.

Join the Restore Labour Democracy Rally on Monday and demand change - with @LabourRachel @CLPD_Labour & voices from our movement ⬇️
https://t.co/PbZWBNsqUC

[Chris Hazzard MP @ChrisHazzardSF]

Tehran suffocates under a black rain - the literal fallout of US/Israeli aggression

Bombing oil reserves isn't "defence" - it’s environmental terrorism

When families shelter from toxic skies and children watch the rain turn black, call it what it is: a heinous war crime

[Labour Left Podcast @BrynHGriffiths]

On #IWD2026 I’ve written an article celebrating all the wonderful socialist feminists who’ve appeared on the Labour Left Podcast.

Lots of fantastic women to listen to on #InternationalWomensDay2026

https://t.co/Z7pP33JlkW

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

After Labour's drubbing in Gorton, this is the response???
My party implementing policies that used to get you thrown out of the Tory party.

Permanent refugee status to be scrapped by Shabana Mahmood
https://t.co/bSb8IdXXyi

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Blame for Labour’s defeat lies squarely with Keir Starmer and his clique.

They put factional interests over having the candidate best placed to win, Andy Burnham.

If Labour is to be the “Stop Reform” party, then the leadership must stop treating progressive voters with contempt - and start appealing to them.

That means a return to real Labour values - through policies like a Wealth Tax, public ownership of energy and water, and an ethical foreign policy that are all popular with the public.

And it means ditching the approach of trying to ape Reform and kicking the left, that has alienated so many people who have voted Labour previously.

[Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon]

The architects of Labour’s 3rd place last night are the Labour right. Their economic and social policy choices, their record on Gaza, their machine politics and their insistence on a narrow electoral definition of who the party needs to base itself on.

[Ali Milani @AliMilaniUK]

Hey, remember when Peter Mandelson was deemed fit to be our ambassador to the United States, but candidates for Parliament were blocked from being on a shortlist because they had liked tweets from Nicola Sturgeon saying she had recovered from Covid.

The state of our politics.

[Labour Left Podcast @BrynHGriffiths]

Starmer’s faction of the Labour Party has used its top down power to rig the Gorton & Denton selection & exclude members. Today is a good day to watch the excellent @LabourRachel explaining why the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy is so important. 1/2
https://t.co/7ObQ30fyeK

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

I’ve declined all media for the last 48 hours because I didn’t want the Burnham issue to be dragged into Left /Right stereotypical reporting.
It isn’t that.
It’s a straightforward power without principle struggle waged by the clique of advisers around Keir Starmer. 1/5

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Everyone knows Andy Burnham would have the best chance of beating Reform in Gorton and Denton.

Fixing the selection to keep him off the ballot would be an affront to party democracy - and a sign nasty factionalism is a higher priority than reversing the rise of Farage and Reform

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

Today over 100,000 people joined us to march for Palestine in London. We won’t stop until Israel’s genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people is over and Palestine is free. 🇵🇸

[Andy McDonald MP for Middlesbrough & Thornaby East @AndyMcDonaldMP]

Day one rights were promised. Labour must deliver them.

If this concession becomes a precedent, business lobby groups will not stop there.

My article for @LabourList 👇

https://t.co/JJAvZEwJLY