Jon Cruddas is a Labour MP who helped recruit initial funding for Labour Together alongside Maurice Glasman. [1]
Cruddas and Glasman recruited £75,000 in startup funding from: [1:1]
Labour Together subsequently:
Cruddas is associated with Blue Labour thinking, [2] the faction founded by Glasman that promotes "small-c conservative" socialism and is explicitly anti-trans.
Cruddas's role in funding Labour Together contributed to the organizational infrastructure that led to Labour's anti-trans turn:
Cruddas + Glasman (fundraising)
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Labour Together (organizational vehicle)
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McSweeney (Chief of Staff)
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Labour anti-trans policy shift