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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 ...

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

Feb 16,2020 6:25 am

Labour Deputy leader Tom Watson has said he was "disappointed" on a motion to oust him, but has called for unity after a "bad start" to the Congress.

Talk, than he said arrived in Brighton, Mr Watson, he wanted to come along to The Party , and added: "I always forgive and forget. "

The movement for the abolition of The Deputy leadership position, has been dropped.

Labour MP, had warned against the movement, before an "inner Civil War ".

labour's stance on Brexit, the education and The Public services on The Agenda of the annual Congress, the opening took place on Saturday and runs until Wednesday.

to Respond to the motion, Mr Watson said: "I think it is very sad. We are fighting here This Week , Boris Johnson . and I think it's been undermined on The First day. "

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

Mr Watson, who was met by cheering Fans as he arrived at the Brighton Station, said Mr Lansman undermine The Party had, as well as leaders Jeremy Corbyn and dynamic self.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Watson At Last year's conference.

He added that many of the Momentum-members "have to say in contact with me, you were not consulted".

Mr Watson said: "I would like to This Week , The Most positive week we can have, I want us to unite, I want us to talk about what our vision for the Country , during and after a General Election . "

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 Jeremy Corbyn , and demanded to remain a unique campaign.

Many on The Left regarded him as disloyal, and for you, this was the last straw.

There was the murmur of the discipline him, but angry words, in action Last Night .

Some of Jeremy 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.

Mr Watson said he had to displace the plot to him in a text message on Friday Night , while in a Chinese Restaurant in Manchester with his son.

The Move provoked a backlash from Labour backbenchers, deputies said, The Party should be a choice on the unit before a possible German Bundestag.

Mr Corbyn later, The Role of the should be reviewed, proposed, and his proposal was supported by the ruling National Executive Committee.

Mr Watson said he was "grateful" for Mr Corbyn's statement, but said it was The Chair of the NEC, Wendy Nichols, stopped the movement.

Len Mccluskey , the General Secretary of the Unite trade Union, said Mr Corbyn "came in and calmed everybody down."

"There's resentment, because Tom, The Deputy head is to support the leader in any organization, and there is not a perception that Tom do," he said. "The builds in the opportunity, and manifests itself in frustration, but Jeremy Corbyn came in and calmed everybody down."

differences over Brexit

Meanwhile, a row over, where the work function on the UK's EU in a General Election .

BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley, said the executive is to discuss a draft of the plan, to commit a Labour government to negotiate a new Brexit offer in three months would be a, and puts the people in a referendum against the remaining six months.

But, our correspondent added, would the group decide not to its liking, until you would go to a General Election - what it means to work in a snap poll, to say whether he wanted to stay or go.

Shadow foreign Minister, Emily Thornberry and Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer

On Saturday, 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.

in his speech at the rally, Mr Keir said: "It has to go back to The Public to decide. A fundamental issue. Are you ready to go, on the terms and conditions in the offer? Or do you want to stay?

"When the time comes, I'll campaign for the remains in addition to millions of people in This Country . "



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Source of news: bbc.com

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