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Jon Lansman

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Gender Male
Born Marylebone
United Kingdom
SpouseBeth Wagstaff
Party Labour Party
FoundedMomentum
Job Politician
Activist
Education Birkbeck, University of London
Clare College, University of Cambridge
Highgate School
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Jonathan Lansman is a British Labour Party activist, who worked on Jeremy Corbyn's successful 2015 campaign for the Labour party leadership, and subsequently founded the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum. He is a member of Labour Party's National Executive Committee.

Work line: Unison Sir in favour of Keir Starmer

Work line: Unison Sir in favour of Keir Starmer
Feb 16,2020 9:55 am

... Mrs Long Bailey has the Momentum-founder Jon Lansman, as their campaign Director and a former spokesman for Mr Corbyn, Matt Zarb-Cousin, as head of the communication Department...

General election 2019: Does Labour need a new direction after Corbyn?

General election 2019: Does Labour need a new direction after Corbyn?
Feb 16,2020 9:10 am

... The grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would keep Labour socialist ...

General election 2019: Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson stands down

General election 2019: Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson stands down
Feb 16,2020 7:54 am

... The day before the party s conference in September, there was also an attempt to kick Mr Watson out of his post by the chief of the left wing campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman...

Margaret Hodge: Labour MP 'disappointed' over reselection contest

Margaret Hodge: Labour MP 'disappointed' over reselection contest
Feb 16,2020 6:41 am

... Jon Lansman - chair of the pro-Corbyn grassroots movement Momentum - tweeted the Left is most certainly not behind the triggering of the reselection contest...

Labour pledges to replace Ofsted with own inspection system

Labour pledges to replace Ofsted with own inspection system
Feb 16,2020 6:27 am

... The motion had been tabled by Jon Lansman, the founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum...

Tom Watson: Labour MEP calls for the unit after the bid to oust him

Tom Watson: Labour MEP calls for the unit after the bid to oust him
Feb 16,2020 6:26 am

... He said he was particularly disappointed with Jon Lansman, the founder of work-the basis of group dynamics, the introduction of the application...

Labour conference: for the elimination of the Deputy-post dropped out

Labour conference: for the elimination of the Deputy-post dropped out
Feb 16,2020 6:26 am

... abolish Rather that me, as a debate, in the run-up to the party conference in Brighton, Mr Watson told the BBC he found late on Friday in a text message that the motion presented by Jon Lansman, the founder of the working width of the sports group in momentum...

Headlines: EU - 'dismisses' backstop-alternatives-and-Thomas-Cook 'on the threshold'

Headlines: EU - 'dismisses' backstop-alternatives-and-Thomas-Cook 'on the threshold'
Feb 16,2020 6:25 am

... the move is forbidden by Momentum s founder, Jon Lansman dramatic Labour kindled s civil war has ...

Labour conference: for the elimination of the Deputy-post dropped out

Feb 16,2020 6:25 am

head of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has raised a motion in his party to oust the conference's Deputy Chairman, Tom Watson , by the abolition of The Position .

Mr Corbyn suggested that The Role should be reviewed, and was supported by the ruling National Executive Committee, a labor source said.

A group of Labour MPs had pushed to avoid the NEC, an "internal Civil War ", if it is the preparation for an Election .

Mr Watson called The Move to oust him, a "sectarian attack" on a "broad Church".

The Congress will be held in Brighton, opened on Saturday and the debate on including labor is exit-stance on the UK's EU.

Meanwhile, labour front benchers Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry appeared at a rally for the people's voice campaign, which supported another referendum, and confirmed that she would Stay back.

"abolish Rather that me, as a debate,'

in the run-up to The Party conference in Brighton, Mr Watson told the BBC he found late on Friday in a text message that the motion presented by Jon Lansman , the founder of the working width of the sports group in momentum.

he said He felt Mr Lansman "and his group were staying" so angry with him about his calls for labour to "unambiguously back" and have a public vote on Brexit, that you "have to abolish rather than a debate about it".

After his intervention, Mr Corbyn told reporters in front of the conference centre, which he "enjoyed" working with Mr. Watson.

later, He said: "The NEC agreed that this [Saturday] morning that we are going to discuss The Future of the diversification of The Deputy leadership position, the diversity of our society reflect.

"And the conference is actions the movement to defeat austerity, The Green Industrial Revolution , The Green New Deal , we put forward and give the people the last word in a British EU exit. "

Mr Lansman said he fully Mr Corbyn supports ' s proposal for the revision of The Deputy head post.

"We need to ensure that The Role is right, compared to the membership during the unification of The Party at the conference. In my view, this criticism is absolutely The Best way to do it," he said.

Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said he was "disappointed" in the attempt to displace Mr. Watson, and was "happy", it had been stopped.

"I think it's been treated, it was quickly withdrawn," he told the BBC.

"What we need to do now is to move on to discuss the policies and programs we need to go in a General Election . "

Analysis

the BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson

the seed for The current rows overshadowed The First day of the labour conference were sown here in Brighton just over Two Weeks ago

Jeremy Corbyn thought he had sealed a deal on Brexit behind closed doors at the TUC conference with the major trade unions.

The Party to remain officially neutral during the elections.

But Tom Watson has outraged many on The Left -hand side is less than 24 hours later, as he disagreed with Mr Corbyn, and called for a unique campaign.

Many on The Left regarded him as disloyal, and that was the last straw. There were mutterings of disciplining him, but angry words, in action Last Night .

Some of Mr Corbyn's closest colleagues have told me that they were angry, they said, had nothing to do with the plot to oust him and to call on the Labour leader had The Coup .

But The Incident makes work, the deep break lines just before a choice - not only between left and right but within The Left .

Tom Watson 's anti-British EU exit meant the attitude that The Left -led trade Union, the TSSA, has to Stay for, gathered around The Deputy leader, and not Momentum Jon Lansman .

But when The Deputy of the führer, the post is approved, these divisions are likely to re-open.

In the short term, labour market strategy against the Lib Dems 'undemocratic' about Brexit and the Conservatives as intolerant of dissenters has been destroyed.

the dispute with Mr Watson that The Position threatened to overshadow Labour's party conference.

On Saturday Morning , in an interview on the BBC programme, Mr Watson Today said the shift was the dynamic "move us in a different kind of institution, in the pluralism will not be tolerated".

He went to the appeal to dynamic activists to focus, to show people you are serious about changing the Political Economy of the UK, rather than "a kind of genius-to do the-hand-of constitutional change, a drive-by shooting by someone who does not agree".

Shadow foreign Minister, Emily Thornberry and Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer voice of the people rally

visited Shortly after the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the for work simple Deputy, wrote a letter to the members of The National Executive Committee, including Mr Corbyn - Saying The Move was counterproductive, and the country sent a message "we are more interested in the internal struggles" as a voter of life.

the Former Prime Minister Tony Blair , who led labour from 1994 to 2007, said the abolition of The Deputy leader post would be "undemocratic and politically dangerous".

Dawn Butler , Shadow women and equality Secretary, said that the Momentum of the movement was "come out of The Blue " - but she could understand the frustration, had with The Deputy head, were not seen in Shadow cabinet meetings "for a while".



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Source of news: bbc.com

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