Red Wall Caucus

The group also focusses on issues which it sees as affecting Labour's traditional working class voter base in particular, such as the cost-of-living crisis, anti-social behaviour and crime, access to GPs and welfare benefits.

[4] However, it is believed that the group will pursue a more aggressive approach as the next general election nears, in order to address the threat of Reform UK.

[2][5] It has also met with senior party officials to discuss the most effective way to portray Labour's policy positions on issues important to the group such as immigration.

[1] To prevent the loss of votes to Reform at the next general election, it has called on government ministers to improve their messaging on immigration and other major issues.

[2] The Red Wall Caucus also focusses on issues which it identifies as affecting working class communities in particular, the traditional voter base of the Labour Party.

Alongside immigration, these issues include the cost-of-living crisis, improving access to NHS GPs, tackling anti-social behaviour and crime and getting people off welfare benefits.

While she maintained that she supported groups of Labour MPs for specific communities of MPs like women or for specific locations like coastal towns or London, she also said "we don't want" regionalism or factionalism, and called on members of the Red Wall Caucus to "support the government" and "play their part in the Parliamentary Labour Party" without "set[ting] up all these flipping groups".