The National Union of Students (NUS) is a confederation of student unions in the United Kingdom. Around 600 student unions are affiliated,accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Although the National Union of Students is the central organisation for all affiliated unions in the UK,there are also the devolved national sub-bodies NUS Scotland in Scotland,NUS Wales in Wales and NUS-USI in Northern Ireland.
The Labour Party Conference is the annual conference of the British Labour Party. It is formally the supreme decision-making body of the party and is traditionally held in the final week of September,during the party conference season when the House of Commons is in recess,after each year's second Liberal Democrat Conference and before the Conservative Party Conference. The Labour Party Conference opens on a Sunday and finishes the following Wednesday,with an address by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party;the Leader's address is usually on the Tuesday. In contrast to the Liberal Democrat Conference,where every party member attending its Conference,either in-person or online,has the right to vote on party policy,under a one member,one vote system,or the Conservative Party Conference,which does not hold votes on party policy,at the Labour Party Conference,50% of votes are allocated to affiliated organisations,and the other 50% to Constituency Labour Parties,but all voting in both categories is restricted to nominated representatives.
Stephen Twigg is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020. He served as Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 to 2005,and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 to 2019.
Karen Patricia Buck is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North,previously Regent's Park and Kensington North,since 1997. A member of the Labour Party,she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport from 2005 to 2006 and served as Shadow Minister for Social Security from 2020 to 2023.
James Francis Murphy is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire,formerly Eastwood,from 1997 to 2015. He identifies as a social democrat and has expressed support for a foreign policy of Western interventionism. He has been described as being on the political right of the Labour Party.
Labour Students is a student organisation within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. It is a network of affiliated college and university clubs,known as Labour Clubs,who campaign in their campuses and communities for Labour's values of equality and social justice.
Liberation Left is a factional grouping operating within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom.
Kathryn "Kat" Jane Fletcher is a British Labour Party politician. In May 2016,she was sworn in as the Mayor of Islington,having served as a councillor of the borough's St George's Ward since 2013. She was previously president of the National Union of Students,between 2004 and 2006,the first to be elected from a political slate to the left of Labour Students.
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. Alongside his brother,Foreign Secretary David Miliband,he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The Organised Independents are a grouping within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom.
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021,and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
Mandy Telford is the former President of National Union of Students from 2002 to 2004,having served the previous two years as President of NUS Scotland. She was the fifth woman to hold the NUS presidency and was twice elected as the Labour Students candidate.
Jonathan Cruddas is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dagenham and Rainham since 2010,and formerly for Dagenham between 2001 and 2010.
Elizabeth Louise Kendall is a British Labour politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2023. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010.
The 2007 Labour Party leadership election was triggered on 10 May 2007 by incumbent leader Tony Blair's announcement that he would resign as leader on 27 June. At the same time that Blair resigned,John Prescott resigned as Deputy Leader,triggering a concurrent election for the deputy leadership.
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) or Student Left Network is a membership-based organisation of activist students and education workers campaigning against tuition fees,education cuts and privatisation in the United Kingdom.
Toni Pearce is a former President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom. Pearce was elected at the 2013 NUS National Conference in April 2013 and re-elected April 2014.
Emily Andrea Melanie Brothers is a British Labour politician who stood in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in the 2015 General Election. She is the first openly transgender Labour Party candidate to run for Westminster.
Malia Mazia Bouattia is the former president of the National Union of Students (NUS) of the United Kingdom,elected at the National Conference in April 2016. She was the first female Black British and Muslim leader of the NUS. She attended the University of Birmingham. In March 2017,she was defeated in her attempt to run for a second term in office by NUS Vice-president Shakira Martin.
Larissa Kennedy is a student politician who was President of the UK National Union of Students 2020–2022,succeeding Zamzam Ibrahim. She was the first president elected via online ballot,defeating six other candidates. She served a two-year term to oversee the NUS's three-year plan to financially overhaul its organisation following a £3 million shortfall in 2018. She is also a trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK),an educational charity formed in response to the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
