I am one of a handful of people in the running to be the next General Secretary of the Labour Party. I believe that all the candidates for Labour’s top management position should be laying out their ideas for renewal openly and discussing them with National Executive Committee members and the Labour movement as a whole. Our agendas, qualities and track records should be scrutinised in the public square, as well as behind closed doors.
In 2011, I was an outsider candidate for this role, and one of the eight people interviewed by the NEC’s shortlisting panel. This is the first time I have told the story of what happened then. Having previously played a leadership role in building new networked movements like Avaaz and 38 Degrees, I was in a senior management position with Oxfam, leading their global campaigns team and doing organisational change, innovation and renewal.
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