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In his address to the conference by video link, Hayden Munro, the strategist credited with planning the New Zealand Labour party’s landslide win in 2020, offered his UK counterparts two key pieces of advice.

The first was about positivity. He told the delegates:

The first is the absolute importance of offering a hopeful and optimistic [vision]. These are times around the world that are really scary, are really challenging, and one of the first things that Jacinda Ardern did when she became the leader of the New Zealand Labour party was commit us to relentless positivity.

She made it a very clear rule to our caucus, to our party: no negativity attacks, we talk about what’s positive, the hopeful, optimistic vision that we have for New Zealand.

The second thing, and this is where I think this falls not just to the leaders of parties, but to campaigners – from activists to campaign leadership – is the absolute importance of running united, disciplined, focused campaigns that are grounded in credible research into what the voters that we need actually [want].

Persuasion is an away game. It happens in the other person’s [field], not our own. And we found that if we grounded in our campaigners in research and what works, we had a much better chance of success.

The Labour MP Rosie Duffield attended an unofficial event in Brighton last night and, according to the Times (paywall), she objected to suggestions she was a “dinosaur” because of her views on trans issues. She said:

It’s ridiculous and nothing about me is a dinosaur. I’m angry at colleagues chucking me on the railway tracks. I’m even more determined. I’m not a transphobe, I never have been and I never will be. I simply want to use the word women.

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