[3] In October 2017, Young Labour passed a motion at their annual conference which called for Britain to withdraw from NATO.

[5][6] In May 2018, the organisation started a digital campaign against then-Labour MP Chuka Umunna after it was revealed that he employed university students to be unpaid interns.

[9] The tweets from earlier in February condemned Starmer for his "celebrating" of closer cooperation with NATO while he was also "attacking Stop the War and other pro-peace activists.

"[9] Some of the statements from Young Labour were cited as follows: "Nato's acts of aggression both historical and present are a threat to all of our safety"[9]"Stoking up tension, macho posturing & trying to 'out do' the Tories on hawkish foreign policy will only lead to further devastation, loss of life and displacement of people across the world"[9]It was also announced that Young Labour's funding would be cut in response to the comments, whilst its Twitter account was restricted by the party for what was described as breaches of acceptable "standards of behaviour".

[9] An article from The Canary dubbed the move "Keir Starmer's latest authoritarian crackdown.

"[11] The crisis between Labour leadership and its youth wing came to an end in 2024, when candidates of the "Organise" faction, backed by Labour First and Progressive Britain, won the overwhelming majority of seats in the Young Labour National Committee, defeating the more left-wing "Socialist Future" faction; the "Organise" candidate, Jack Lubner was subsequently elected new chair and Lula da Silva was stripped from the title of honorary president.

[citation needed] Reforms passed by the Labour Party's annual conference saw the creation of a democratically elected chair, voted for by delegates at Young Labour's national conference, to serve a two-year term.