Motion calling on Watson to resign or submit himself for re-election expected to take local Labour parties by storm

Tom Watson

CLPs (constituency Labour parties) up and down the country are preparing motions against Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson over his recent behaviour, with motions already passed in the north and south.

The motion below, passed by a northern CLP, roots members’ dissatisfaction firmly in the party’s rules and is being circulated by the Labour grassroots. It is expected to be passed by many dozens or even by hundreds of local parties outraged at Watson’s failure to fulfil the responsibilities of the role he occupies.

Model motion

This CLP notes:

Under Party Rules, Clause VII, section ix. “the Deputy Leader shall provide the Leader with advice and support in achieving the goals of the Party and deputise as requested.” That in her email of 1st March to Tom Watson, Jenny Formby, the General Secretary of the Party states “You have decided without consultation or regard to due process, to ask colleagues who raise complaints with me to forward them to your private email address as you will be ‘logging and monitoring’ all complaints. It is completely inappropriate for you to set up a vague parallel complaints monitoring system … The suggestion that you as an individual data controller should receive and store data related to complaints unrelated to your personal role as an MP … is completely unacceptable and exposes you, and the Party, to significant compliance risks. Furthermore you will undermine the work that my staff and I are doing and will confuse and pollute the existing formal process, compromising it and slowing it down.” In a series of media interviews Tom Watson has declared his intention to set up an organisation of MPs to challenge the policies of the Leader and the Shadow Cabinet.

__________ CLP believes that Tom Watson’s actions seek to undermine the Party Leader, twice overwhelmingly elected by party members, and are not compatible with his remit as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

__________ CLP calls for Tom Watson to either stand down as Deputy Leader or submit himself for re-election as Deputy Leader.

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