Former Corbyn critics within Labour to address Momentum event
The list of speaker's at Momentum's World Transformed 'festival' confirms its place in Labour's mainstream
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Your support makes all the difference.Momentum’s second ‘rival’ Labour conference will be addressed by many of the party’s most high profile and influential MPs, confirming the pro-Corbyn grassroots activist movement’s arrival in the party’s mainstream.
At last year’s party conference, the Momentum World Transformed festival was considered a rival to the party conference proper, at which Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader, having comfortably beaten rival Owen Smith.
This time round, Lisa Nandy, a one-time Corbyn critic who organised Owen Smith’s leaderhip bid, will address the World Transformed event, as will Shadow Health Secretary John Ashworth, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, new Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad and dozens of other MPs.
Laura Pidcock, the new North West Durham MP, and Norwich South’s former front bencher Clive Lewis will be there. Former deputy prime minister John Prescott and Baroness Shami Chakrabarti will also be at the event.
That the likes of Lisa Nandy, once considered a leadership rival to Corbyn, will address the event staged by a group that grew out of the 2015 Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign, further confirms Mr Corbyn's unassailable position as leader in the wake of June's general election.
Film director and prominent Corbynista Ken Loach will also speak at the event.
Organiser Anastasia Palikeras said: "This year’s World Transformed programme will have even more Labour MPs alongside internationally acclaimed writers, artists, campaigners and activists, reflecting the growing diversity and strength of our movement."
"For us the key focus is on building on the success of Labour’s general election campaign and preparing for the challenges that lie ahead by discussing the ideas that will transform our world."
At the conference proper, several senior Labour figures such as Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan will contend with shorter speaking slots than usual on the main stage, a decision taken by Jeremy Corbyn in response to calls from the now vastly enlarged membership to speak from the conference floor.
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