Dozens of Labour candidates for parliament, including David Lammy, Tulip Siddiq and Paul Sweeney, have pledged that if elected, they will put into action the migrants’ rights and free movement policy that received an almost unanimous vote from delegates of local parties, trade unions and affiliates at September’s Labour Party conference. More continue to add their names, and we invite all Labour candidates to sign the pledge by emailing info@labourfreemovement.org!
As a Labour candidate, I am excited to support the policy of solidarity, equality and free movement for migrants that our members and affiliates overwhelmingly approved this year. If elected, I will put it into action:
- To defend and extend free movement: opposing any reduction in the freedoms of UK and EU citizens to live, work, and access social security in each others’ countries, and any immigration system based on incomes, migrants’ utility to business, and number caps or targets.
- To close every detention centre.
- To ensure unconditional rights to family reunion.
- To end “no recourse to public funds” policies.
- To scrap all Hostile Environment measures, use of landlords and public service providers as border guards, and restrictions on migrants’ NHS access.
- To extend equal rights to vote to all UK residents.
Signed by
- Kate Osamor, Edmonton
- Clive Lewis, Norwich South
- Rachael Maskell, York Central
- Marsha de Cordova, Battersea
- Alex Sobel, Leeds North West
- David Lammy, Tottenham
- Thom Kirkwood, Richmond (Yorks.)
- Oliver Durose, Brentwood & Ongar
- Jackie Schneider, Wimbledon
- Samantha Charles, West Worcestershire
- Jonny Roberts, Wantage
- Faten Hameed, Glasgow Central
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Streatham
- Ellie Reeves, Lewisham West & Penge
- Rosie Newbigging, Welwyn Hatfield
- Siobhan Strode, Torridge and West Devon
- Angelina Leatherbarrow, Romford
- Paul Sweeney, Glasgow North East
- Pete Lowe, Stourbridge
- Mark Sewards, Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Jill Borcherds, Stevenage
- Heather Herbert, Gordon
- Kevin Bonavia, Clacton
- Samuel Sweek, Huntingdon, St Neots & St Ives
- Felicity Owen, St Austell and Newquay
- Claudia Sorin, West Dorset
- Nadia Whittome, Nottingham East
- Cara Hilton, Dunfermline and West Fife
- Jay Morton, Chichester
- Zarah Sultana, Coventry South
- Jenny Reeves, Faversham and Mid Kent
- Tulip Siddiq, Hampstead and Kilburn
- Emma Corlett, North Norfolk
- Chloe Hopkins, Beverley and Holderness
- Karen Davis, Norwich North
- Rachael Schneider Ross, Devizes
- Monique Miller, Angus
- Pam Duncan Glancey, Glasgow North
- Claire Unwin, West Suffolk
- Alan Mackenzie, The Cotswolds
- Tonia Antoniazzi, Gower
- Cameron Matthews, Suffolk Coastal
- Angela Bretherton, Perth and North Perthshire
- Holly Kal-Weiss, Hertsmere
- Fran Boait, Gloucester
- Gerry Mitchell. Woking
- Liz Bell, North West Hampshire
- Mary Kate Ross, Stirling
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Richard Quigley, Isle of Wight
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Brighton Kemptown
- Daniel Zeichner, Cambridge
- Emily Blake, South West Norfolk
- Rachel Eden, Reading West
- Brahma Mohanty, Surrey Heath
- Florence Eshalomi, Vauxhall
- Helen Russell, Mid Worcestershire
- Helen Hayes, Dulwich & West Norwood
- Ross Houston, Finchley & Golders Green