RESTORATION
AT LABOUR
CONFERENCE
2025

Help us host our grassroots fringe programme at Labour Conference 2025

Restoration is an organising tendency within Labour to rebuild the party’s traditional role as a populist movement made by and for working class people.

Our proposals for conference 2025 focus on re-orienting the party away from identity, culture war and technocracy and towards issues of class, participation and the challenge of building a new commonwealth in the most geographically centralised economy in the developed world.

We aim to explore three themes:

* Ending The Two Englands

* Keeping The Red Wall Red

* Dignity Of Labour

The themes aim to address questions arising around migration, work and industry that have been buried under the surface of the British political discourse for many years - with any response or disquiet dismissed as ‘populism’

We aim to help the party retain ‘red wall’ constituencies as an integral part of Labour identity and of Labour’s electorate, and to counter the cultural presumptions that Labour’s bias to major metropolitan areas produce by reflex.

Help us to raise £3,000 to stage a Restoration of the left 

  • Ending the two englands

    The United Kingdom is the most regionally unequal country in the developed world and England is the most starkly unequal nation in the union.

    There are ‘Two Englands’ - prosperous cities with significant real estate wealth, new industry, and foreign investment, and struggling towns with dilapidated high streets and aging populations.

    These panels will look at how industrial strategy and the precedent set by nationalisation of Scunthorpe steel can help end The Two Englands.

  • Labour must become a political vehicle for working class people and for class politics.

    It must restore the prestige and educational infrastructure associated with professional trades and caring professions.

    If we put class and work first, what must change? We will talk about working class people’s participation in politics, arts, building a home grown key worker workforce and a class-first approach to equality.

  • Keep The Red Wall Red

    The route to government in 2029 will be through the Red Wall.

    For the first time in a generation, Labour has a unique chance to win government with class politics that appeal to communities that have been left behind by globalisation.

    This series of panels will focus on how Labour can better respond to working class voters’ needs and values to represent its seats in the Red Wall and post-industrial England at the next election. It will look at how European left wing parties have kept the ‘Reform/Labour’ swing voter’s loyalty and votes, and look at how non-voters will affect the 2029 election.