Oliver Beddow

Our party stands at a critical juncture. We are increasingly a party supported by the comfortable and rejected by the insecure. In the North West, we have suffered devastating defeats to our right in Runcorn and Helsby, and to our left in Gorton and Denton.

The solution doesn’t lie in pandering to one side or the other with performative gestures and tweaks in rhetoric. It lies in a coherent national plan that shifts power and wealth from the few to the many.

The country is sick of being ripped off by energy and water companies who engorge the bank accounts of shareholders at the public’s expense. The country is sick of the sleaze and corruption that infects our politics. The country is sick of a Thatcherite consensus that has seen our economy dominated by finance rather than manufacturing, and our national assets sold off.

If elected to the NPF, I will argue for a programme that channels the public’s anger towards this broken status quo and prioritises rebuilding our country over private profit.

I am a Labour activist and RMT member in Cheshire and I am endorsed by the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance alongside Anya Wilkinson and Mike Garvey.