Talk:Labour Together

Common Good Labour, not to be confused with Labour For the Common Good
I initially wrote this article believing Labour Together was formerly named Labour for the Common Good, but have come to the conclusion that Common Good Labour (the original name of Labour Together) and Labour for the Common Good (a separate Labour group that formed around the same time) are different organizations .

I was at first convinced by this 2023 Guardian article which states that Labour Together was "originally called Labour for the Common Good". However, this 2015 Guardian article stated that "the bewildering array of new thinktanks and talking shops sprouting on the left – from Jon Cruddas’s Labour Together to Hunt and Umunna’s Labour for the Common Good – is a first stab at such an intellectual renewal." This suggested that one of these articles was incorrect.

I later found that Labour Together was first called Common Good Labour for the first three months of its life, which probably caused the confusion in the 2023 Guardian article. This is stated in this New Statesman article ("Langdon and a Blue Labour activist, John Clarke, set up Common Good Labour. Its launch was leaked to the press as an anti-Corbyn initiative. It wasn’t, but the name had to go. An alternative was agreed: Labour Together"). However, that article is by Jonathan Rutherford, who himself is associated with Labour Together, so I'd rather not reference it; I've instead used the actual company filings which state the name change happened on 1 September 2015.

Just thought this was important and would like to fully own up to that mistake! JamJamSvn (talk) 06:16, 8 January 2024 (UTC)