Labour Students
Student wing of the UK Labour Party
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| 2024 | Issy Waite succeeds Jonathan Heywood as Secretary of Labour Students National Committee for 2024- term. |
| 2024 | Ruby Herbert replaced Ben McGowan as chair following the faction victory in internal elections. |
| 2024 | Internal elections saw the victory of the 'Organise' faction, backed by Labour First and Progressive Britain, defeating the left-wing 'Socialist Future' group. |
| 2023 | Scottish Conference voted unanimously to re-affiliate Scottish Labour Students, following a campaign by Chair Solomon Cuthbertson. |
| 2022 | Jonathan Heywood appointed as Secretary of Labour Students National Committee for 2022-24 term. |
| September 2 2022 | Ben McGowan was elected as the inaugural chair of the National Labour Students organisation. |
| August 2022 | National Committee elections were held for the refounded National Labour Students organisation. |
| 2021 | In the Scottish Labour leadership election, SLS officially endorsed Monica Lennon, who was backed by the Campaign for Socialism. However, Lennon lost to Anas Sarwar by a margin of 58 to 42 percent. |
| 2021 | A new, refounded National Labour Students (NLS) was passed at the Labour Party Conference. |
| 2020 | Lottie Doherty serves as Interim Chair |
| 2020 | Mariam Shaaban resigns as Chair mid-term |
| 2019 | Andrew Wilson resigns as Chair mid-term after a majority of University Labour Clubs vote no confidence in his leadership |
| 2019 | Labour Students transitions from an independent 'socialist society' to a formal branch of the Labour Party, losing its previous autonomous governance structure and automatically including all student Labour Party members. |
| September 2019 | Labour Students was disaffiliated from the Labour Party by the Party's National Executive Committee, with the intent of replacing it with a new student organisation. |
| 2018 | Launched the 'Time For Rights' campaign to protect workers' rights in Students' Unions and Universities in the context of Brexit. |
| 2017 | Initiated the 'Somewhere To Call Home' campaign to address poor living conditions and high student rents. |
| 2016 | Started the 'A Million More Voices' campaign aimed at introducing automatic voter registration. |
| 2016 | Labour Students national conference adopted a one-member-one-vote (OMOV) system for internal elections by amending its constitution. |
| 2012 | Launched the Voter Registration Campaign to increase student voter registration. |
| 2011 | Began the Living Wage Campaign in collaboration with UNISON, working to secure living wage commitments at university campuses, with successful outcomes at institutions like Manchester and Kent. |
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