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‘We need to unite the left to become a strong voice inside and outside the party’
Lucy Wood talks to SOLMA AHMED about why she’s standing as a candidate for Forward Momentum’s national co-ordinating group for Midland and East Region

THE national co-ordinating group is Momentum’s highest body and is responsible for ensuring that the organisation operates within its aims and values so whomever is elected has the power to bring about the change that is needed to bring Momentum forward. 

Momentum began as a people-powered, grassroots movement, which helped mobilise the left during the Corbyn leadership with the same ethos as the Labour Party to transform our society and communities to work for the many not just the privileged few. 

The movement was inspirational in the beginning, but many begun to lose faith in the organisation when it seemed that only a few at the top were calling the shots and members were being marginalised and treated merely as boots on the ground rather than empowering and supporting community groups and voices. 

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