LI arrangements for national Conference
Results of the ballot for Women’s national Conference
Winning option
Option 1: Mothers Abandoned by British Governments
Final count
| Candidate | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Option 1: Mothers Abandoned by British Governments | 17 | elected |
| Option 2: Protecting Trans rights after the Supreme Court Ruling on the Interpretation of the Equality Act (2010) | 8 | not-elected |
Mothers Abandoned by British Governments
There are orphaned children, and displaced mothers with their children, born to UK and former UK citizens, for whom the UK has a responsibility, still living in camps, which were under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).
Conference acknowledges:
• Our duty of care to them;
• Their neglect by UK Governments.
Conference notes:
1. 2019 the Government promised to repatriate orphans from Syria. It’s 2026 and
some are still waiting;
2. Fall of ISSIS. Mothers are still detained, and violence has intensified1;
3. July 2026 UN Commission Syria Inquiry’s, after a week-long visit. The
Commission:
3.1. pressed for answers on missing detainees;
3.2. urged Syria to trace missing detainees;
3.3. raised concern over detentions in the north-east, where more than six in 10
of those held are children;
3.4. called on countries to repatriate their citizens2.
Conference calls on the:
1. Labour Parliament’s Women MPs to:
1.1. Demonstrate the same compassion shown by Syrian families3;
2. Home Secretary, R. Hon. Shabana Mahmood MP, to:
2.1. put the case for these children at the top of her agenda;
2.2. support bringing them to the UK.
3. Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon. Ed Miliband MP, Under Secretary, Rt Hon. Chris Elmore MP and, Under Secretary Rt. Hon. Uma Kumaran MP, to arrange for these mothers and children to be brought to the UK;
3.1. request, help from;
a) NGOs;
b) UNICEF.
Results of the ballot for national Conference
Below you can see a summary of the 1st preference votes (Round 1) and the final result (Round 4).Round 1 — 1st preference votes
Candidate Votes Status Option 1: A New British Parliament 13 hopeful Option 2: Palestine 51 hopeful Option 3: Jury trials 25 hopeful Option 4: Board of peace 10 hopeful Option 5: National Energy Security through Local Energy Development 39 hopeful Round 4 — Final result after transfers
Candidate Votes Status Option 1: A New British Parliament 0 eliminated Option 2: Palestine 65 hopeful Option 3: Jury trials 0 eliminated Option 4: Board of peace 0 eliminated Option 5: National Energy Security through Local Energy Development 63 hopeful
Conference notes that:
- On 17th June, the Palestinian Health Ministry stated that more than 1,000 people in Gaza had been killed since a ceasefire was agreed in October, and the humanitarian situation remains catastrophic.
- Between 7 October 2023 and 13 July 2026, 1,111 Palestinians – including at least 243 children – were killed by soldiers and settlers in the occupied West Bank. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.
- 1.9 million Palestinians remain displaced and dependent on humanitarian aid.
- Some 3,244 Palestinians are held in “administrative detention” without charge or trial, including medical personnel.
- Former UK ambassadors wrote on 7 April that the Israeli Government has “grown used to rhetorical condemnation without consequences.”
- In July, Israel’s defence and finance ministers announced plans for three illegal “Nahal” settlements in Gaza and more than £300m to expand construction in the West Bank.
Conference calls on the Government to:
- Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement until Israel ends its illegal occupation;
- End all arms sales to Israel until it demonstrates that it has abandoned collective punishment and violence in response to legitimate resistance to illegal occupation;
- Ban transit for any vessels or aircraft transporting military equipment and munitions to Israel;
- Ban the import of goods and services from Israeli settlements in accordance with the British Government’s clear position on the illegality of the settlements;
- Call on Israel to immediately allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Palestinian prisoners held in its jails and end administrative detention.
LI arrangements for Conference motions
You can see guidance on how to write conference motions here.
- 11th July 23.55 CEST : Draft conference motions to be sent to secretary
- 18th July 11.30 CEST: All-members meeting to discuss proposed motions
- 20th July 23.55 CEST: Final text for proposed motions (including new motions) to be sent to secretary
- 21st July – 1st August 23.55 CEST: All members can vote on the proposed motions on receipt of a voting link in an email from the secretary.
Please note the following:
(1) Any motion proposed to both the LIGC and Conference will be considered separately. Motions to LIGC are proposed/amended by the LIGC as LI policy and will be processed as per normal LIGC motions. Motions proposed as conference motions will follow the process and timeline above. The latest text delivered to the secretary by 23.55 on 20th July will be the definitive text distributed for the vote.
(2) Some motions may be proposed to both the LIGC and conference motion process. Changes in the LIGC will not automatically be incorporated into a conference motion. It is at the sole discretion of the proposer and seconder of a conference motion to decide and propose the final text for conference motions. The latest text delivered to the secretary by 23.55 CEST on 20th July will be the text supplied to the members as a basis for their vote.
(3) Conference motions which are delivered to the secretary after the all-members meeting but before 20th July at 23.55 will be included in the voting.
(4) Voting will be conducted as a STV preference vote. In the event that the CAC [Conference Arrangements Committee] reject our proposed motion (as they did last year) then we will propose the motion that came in 2nd place in the voting. Naturally, we will repeat that process should the CAC reject the 2nd, 3rd placed motion.
Conference arrangements committee rules for CLP submitted motions
- on one subject.
- no more than 250 words in length.
- not considered by the CAC as an organisational matter or constitutional amendment.
- It deals with a topic which arose after the publication of the reports of the National Policy Forum (NPF), Policy Commissions or National Executive Committee, or has not been substantively addressed in those reports.
- The issue could not otherwise have been raised through the NPF process
- It does not seek to by-pass either the National Policy Forum policy making or National Executive Committee decision-making processes or to overturn or revisit the Party Policy Programme as agreed through the NPF process, including issues defeated at the NPF which failed to achieve the status of an alternative position at the NPF.
National Conference delegates 2026
The delegates attending the conferences on behalf of Labour International are the following (alphabetically by surname):
- Sue Blackwell
- Lakshmi Jonker
- Hector Müller
- Boyd Stephen
- Imogen Tyreman (lead delegate)
National Womens Conference delegates 2026
The delegates attending the conferences on behalf of Labour International are the following (alphabetically by surname):
- Becky Slack