RESTORATION AT LABOUR
CONFERENCE 2025

Editors’ background notes:

  • Restoration is a grassroots project to bring working class politics back into the Labour Party. It claims Labour has lost its identity entirely and become a party for management consultants not people with real jobs

  • Restoration’s campaign slogan is Make Labour Working Class Again.

  • Restoration was launched in 2024 and 2025 with a series of conference panels on re-industrialisation, working class MPs and working class participation in the arts.

  • Restoration is running a slate for Labour’s National Executive Committee made up of people with blue collar jobs in care, railways, steel manufacture headed by prominent Labourlist commentator Stella Tsanketidou

  • Restoration is a bridge between soft left and Blue Labour politics. In comparison to Blue Labour, Restoration is oriented at a mass member grassroots and non-Westminster politics and relationships with trade unions.

Brief and Quotes on the new leadership challenger portal:

  • Restoration continues its campaign to Make Labour Working Class Again with a web portal for Labour members to organise for the next leader

  • Restoration has launched a web portal to ensure that the next Labour leader comes from a working class professional background.

  • “It is an embarrassment to us that a plumber can stand for the Green Party but blue collar and working class professionals cannot find a place in Labour. It is embarassing that working class voters are lining up behind Reform” Said David Littlefair, Restoration founder

  • “Our next leader can’t come from the same tired clique of lifelong professional politicians. They can’t be an elite lawyer or career politician. They must be able to authentically articulate the pain and disappointment in working class Britain that Reform feed on.”
    Said Stella Tsanketidou, currently running on the Restoration NEC slate for Labour’s internal elections

  • “Working class people are turning against Labour all over Britain. Without class politics, culture wars decide elections.
    For the first time in generations, it is time for a working class Labour leader. We want to make sure that happens as its the only thing that can save Labour now.” Said David Littlefair, Restoration Founder

In response to Gorton and Denton defeat, now grassroots ‘Old Labour’ lobby RESTORATION launches a campaign for next Labour leader