Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

As disquiet bruised within Labour overcuts the welfare and a perceived failure to pursue a progressive

enough agenda, this week we're looking inside the governing party as a host of new caucuses

and organised campaign groups have sprung up and ask who are the new

tribes within labour, who is behind them, what are their aims, and how dangerous could they be

to Kirstarmes leadership as he faces his first major rebellion since winning office with a huge

majority last year. With me to explain everything from the growth group, the coastals, the co-op,

Christian socialists and a host of other groups, I coastals, the co-op, Christian socialists,

and a host of other groups, I have three of the finest Labour Party watches in Westminster.

First, Luciena Rogers, deputy editor of our sister title, The House magazine,

and a former editor of the Labour List website, as well as Morgan Jones, journalist and another former editor of Labour List,

along with Stephen Bush, associate editor of The Financial Times.

So I'm going to start with UCNA. Back in the autumn, you wrote a piece for The House magazine

looking at kind of the different Labour tribes, but it feels six months later like there's kind of

even more have sprung up. You just talk us through

kind of the most influential kind of important sort of Labor caucuses when we talk about the

different tribes within the party. Yes, so I wrote that piece. I think it was for our Labor

Conference edition of the magazine and that was really kind of fresh from the general election.

It was kind of looking at what groups had already emerged

and kind of what ones were expected to. So Labor Growth Group was quite an early one, the kind

of brainchild of Josh Simons, who was director of Labor Together before he was elected.

It's now got co-chairs who are different from him, so Lola McAvoy and Chris Curtis,

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