28 Facts About Jon Lansman

Jonathan Lansman was born on 9 July 1957 and is a British political activist.

Jon Lansman is best known for having worked on Jeremy Corbyn's successful 2015 campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and subsequently founded the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum.

Jon Lansman is a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.

Jon Lansman was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Southgate, north London.

Jon Lansman's father Bernard was a Conservative councillor in Hackney.

Jon Lansman was a pupil at the private Highgate School from 1970 to 1975.

Jon Lansman read for a degree in Economics at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979.

Jon Lansman was active in the student union while at Cambridge University and was an elected student member of the Academic Board.

Jon Lansman ran for Union President on the same slate as Andrew Marr, then nicknamed Red Andy, who provided campaign cartoons.

Jon Lansman was a prominent member of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and worked with Benn on his campaign during the 1981 Labour deputy leadership election.

Jon Lansman was the Secretary of the Rank and File Mobilising Committee, which was the primary campaigning organisation for Benn.

Jon Lansman denied this was the case, as he had been in Spain during the Cardiff meeting and travelling to Aberystwyth during the Birmingham meeting.

Jon Lansman later organised Benn's campaign in the 1988 Labour leadership election, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Neil Kinnock.

From 2010, Jon Lansman worked as a researcher for Michael Meacher.

In 2010, Jon Lansman became the editor of the left-wing website, Left Futures.

Jon Lansman volunteered for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, and was the sole director of Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 Ltd, an official campaign company that held the data collected by the campaign.

Jon Lansman is reported to be a supporter of mandatory reselection for Labour MPs.

Jon Lansman was interviewed by The Jewish Chronicle in January 2016.

In 2018, Jon Lansman criticised the Jewish Voice for Labour group at the Limmud Festival.

In May 2020, Jon Lansman announced that he would step down as the chairman of Momentum the following month.

In July 2020, Jon Lansman apologised for criticising ex-Labour staffers who had appeared on the BBC's Panorama programme Is Labour Anti-Semitic, following the party's decision to apologise for similar comments, which they said had been "false and defamatory".

In January 2018, Jon Lansman was elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.

However, Jon Lansman withdrew, saying that he had stood to avoid Jennie Formby being chosen unopposed and to help end Labour's "command and control" inclinations, and that he had achieved his intention of creating a debate over how the party is managed.

Jon Lansman was reported as standing as the Labour candidate in the new Mousehole, Newlyn and St Buryan division on Cornwall Council in the 2021 local elections, and was even listed on St Ives Labour Party's website, but was never nominated as a candidate for the ward.

Jon Lansman was reported to have withdrawn for personal reasons and was not replaced by the local party, whose political education officer he is.

Jon Lansman died of breast cancer in January 1999, aged 39; the couple had three children.

Jon Lansman has been a trustee of the charity, Breast Cancer Care, under whose auspices his wife had set up the Lavender Trust before she died, both to help younger women become aware of the disease and to support them.

Jon Lansman is an atheist, although he still observes some Jewish holidays festivals.