Saturday, January 09, 2010

New Chair of Labour Party North West Region

I was very proud and honoured to be elected today as the new Chair of the Labour Party for the North West Region. This makes me only the third chair in 25 years. Louise Ellman served as Chair for at least 10 years (I must ask her again how long it was) while she was the Leader of Lancashire County Council. Then when she was elected to Parliament in 1997, Dave Quayle, Trade Unionist, now of UNITE the Union, took over. He has now retired after his 13 year stint and I took over at a meeting in Manchester this morning.

It is a tremendous opportunity to help direct the future of the Labour Party in the region - the biggest Labour Party region in the UK, with the most MPs. Alongside the Regional Director and her team, I will be working with our Local Government leaders, MPs, MEPs and Regional Minister, our Constituency Labour Parties, Regional Trade Unions, Socialist Societies and the Co-operative Party, Young Labour and LGBT Labour NW to influence policy, campaigning, recruitment and fundraising. (Representatives from these groups make up the LP NW Regional Board).

I want to thank Dave Quayle for the great job he has done over the last 13 years, helping Labour NW grow from strength to strength, I hope I can do as good a job as he has done.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

Anonymous said...

That was me - James Siddelley - but I can't recall my wordy bits to get in here.

Stuart Bruce said...

Congratulations, expect you will be great at it.

Colin said...

congratulations Looby-Lou

ian jackson said...

Congratulations and good luck - not an easy job.

Anonymous said...

great news Congratulations

Gerard and Miriam XXX

Patrick Hurley said...

Many congrats. I'm sure you'll be a great success.

Professor Y. Chucklebutty said...

Dear Lucy, very well done and well deserved. I have recently been voted chairperson of the North West Ex-Chairpersons Society, although winning the title imediately disqualified me from taking up the position. So we are going to have to elect another Chair to form a sub-group to look at the rules. Anyway, our victories are I believe what Alistair Burnett would call "a double whammie"

Congratulations

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Louise. I couldn't think of a better chair. Your success is a given. xx