Labour votes to scrap student wing ahead of party conference

Momentum founder Jon Lansman led the successful efforts to replace Labour Students. Photograph: Joel Goodman/LNP/REX/ShutterstockThe founder of Momentum, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has succeeded in a bid to make the party effectively abolish its 40-year-old student wing, which is dominated by the more centrist side of the party.Jon Lansman won the backing of Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) for a motion that argued Labour Students was not officially affiliated and shoul