THE left-wing slate for today’s Labour Party National Executive Committee elections succeeded in having five of its six candidates selected as local party representatives — a result hailed as a “huge victory for the socialist left.”

Momentum celebrated victory for those on the Grassroots Voice (GV) grouping, saying it “showed that members want Labour to back a transformative, socialist programme — and that is exactly what these representatives will fight for.”

The GV candidates elected were Mish Rahman, Gemma Bolton, Nadia Jama, Yasmine Dar, and ex-MP Laura Pidcock. Ann Henderson, the sixth candidate on the slate, was unable to secure re-election to the NEC.