LABOUR’S leadership suffered a major embarrassment today when leftwingers swept the board in elections to the party’s health affiliate on a platform of ending private-sector involvement in the NHS.
Despite right-wing efforts to take back control, campaigners backed by grassroots group Momentum eventually stood unopposed and won re-election to the posts of chairperson, secretary and treasurer of the Socialist Health Association (SHA).
The association, which serves as Labour’s main campaigning body on health, has been affiliated to the party for more than 90 years and retains nominating rights for MPs and the party leadership.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
JACKIE OWEN and DYLAN LEWIS-ROWLANDS argue that Welsh Labour conference this weekend is the be-all and end-all moment if Labour wants to avoid a rout at next year’s election



