Labour MPs Urged To Campaign In London Amid Green Surge Fears

Labour MPs from across the country are being urged to campaign in London over the next fortnight as the party fears losing key councils to the Greens.

Voters in the capital, as well as millions of people across England, Scotland and Wales, will go to the polls for crunch elections on May 7.

Experts, as well as Labour MPs themselves, are predicting that the party is heading for “a bloodbath” as the electorate delivers a damning verdict of the government’s performance so far.

MPs will return to Westminster on Monday after the two-week Easter recess.

Labour chair Anna Turley has written to the party’s MPs who were first elected at the 2024 general election urging them to get out knocking on doors while they are in London.

In her message, seen by HuffPost UK, she says: “Back to London next week!
Let’s make our time there really count in the last few weeks of the campaign!

“Every London council seat is up for election in May. I know you’re all doing great work across the country but let’s use our time in the big smoke to help our Labour family there.

“We’re heading out campaigning in key London areas next week and the following week.

It would be fantastic to have colleagues (and available team members) from across the country join us—just as London has supported so many of our campaigns before. Your help would make a real difference.”

One Labour MP told HuffPost UK that the message showed “things must be bad” for the party in the capital.

Among the Labour-run authorities thought to be vulnerable are those in Islington, Lambeth, Southwark and Hackney.

A Green Party spokesman said: “It’s not the 2024 intake of Labour MPs people in London want to see on their doorsteps, it’s help with the affordability crisis and real affordable housing.

“People are turning to the Greens because they see a real alternative to failing Labour councils.”

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