As the SKWAWKBOX exclusively broke this morning and now confirmed, the candidates of the left slate in Labour’s National Executive Committee elections have won another clean sweep, taking all nine positions. Veteran NEC member Ann Black, standing as an independent candidate after being dropped from the slate, did not succeed and will stand down after this month’s annual conference.

This win strengthens Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters as they prepare to implement the democracy review recommendations that succeed in being ratified at the conference. Ms Black’s failure to win re-election will further strengthen the left on the NEC, because as Chair of the National Policy Forum she currently has a position on the NEC officers’ group, which has huge influence over NEC matters.

Congratulations to all the successful candidates, who include Peter Willsman in spite of shameful manoeuvres and smears by the right – and the deeply misguided decision of a small group of Momentum executive officers to withdraw the organisation’s support for his candidacy.

The full results are:

RESULTS (9 to elect) DAR, Yasmine 88,176 ELECTED WEBBE, Claudia 83,797 ELECTED LANSMAN, Jon 83,072 ELECTED GARNHAM, Rachel 81,702 ELECTED ELMI, Huda 80,371 ELECTED WILLIAMS, Darren 79,361 ELECTED HENDERSON, Ann 79,176 ELECTED MISHRA, Navendu 75,224 ELECTED WILLSMAN, Peter 70,321 ELECTED IZZARD, Eddie 67,819 BAXTER, Johanna 50,185 SINGH JOSAN, Gurinder 48,643 BLACK, Ann 45,566 BECKETT, Jasmin 43,955 PETO, Heather 43,774 AKEHURST, Luke 43,156 CAZIMOGLU, Eda 40,807 WIMBURY, Mary 40,507 BANES, Lisa 37,993 MASTERS, Marianna 35,061 FLETCHER, Jonathan 15,303 GUY, Stephen 14,985 MORRISON, Nicola 10,671 CRAIGIE, James 10,326 SPEDDING, Gary 9,854 STANNERS, Stephen 8,909

The victory margins over the dire right-wing slate are substantial. Former left-slate candidate Ann Black, campaigning as an independent, finished well off the pace in thirteenth – a surprise to those who considered her a serious threat to one of the left-slate candidates.

SKWAWKBOX comment:

Labour’s membership has sent a clear message to those who have been resorting to smears to try to inhibit the party’s democratic processes and to the mainstream media supporting them: “We’re not buying it.”

The news is also likely to be cold water in the face of the Labour right, which has been trying to build up steam to remove Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, either by a leadership election or by other means. Their motives have been transparent, became blatant over the weekend – and most members see through them.

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