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Parents in high places: the Nepo babies climbing the Labour ranks

Labour was once the party of the working class. ‘For the many, not the few.’ But now? The rise of Nepo babies means all it takes is a rich Daddy.

Labour and its Nepo babies

Jack Lubner was elected as the chair of Young Labour in April 2024.

In March 2024, The Independent reported that his Dad, Gary Lubner, had donated £4.5m to the Labour Party.

Donation records show that in March 2024 alone, Gary Lubner donated two separate amounts to the Labour Party – £9,000 on March 5, and £239,000 on March 20.

His biggest donation was £2.2m in May 2023.

Not only did his Dad donate huge amounts of money to Labour HQ, but the son of a millionaire is hardly a good representative for the country’s supposedly working-class party. I’m sure his knowledge of free school meals and struggling to get by will come in very handy.

A pattern

Jack Lubner is not the only Nepo baby rising through the Labour ranks.

Hamish Falconer, MP for Lincoln, is the son of Lord Falconer – a Labour politician, peer and barrister. He served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Tony Blair from 2003.

In 2024, Jawad Iqbal of The Spectator wrote:

Hamish Falconer, privately educated, scion of a Labour peer, on the fast track to high office, reveals much about the new government which is against private schools, against privilege and on the side of “working people”. It is failing the smell test. The stench of entitlement is everywhere in the air.

Georgia Gould, Labour MP for Queen’s Park and Maida Vale since 2024, is the daughter of the late Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood. According to Tatler, her “illustrious family history shaped modern British politics”. Her mother, Baroness Gail Ruth Rebuck, is the Chair of Penguin Random House, and a Labour peer since 2014. According to Women’s Hour in 2013, she was the 10th most powerful woman in the country.

Starmer gave Gould a junior ministerial role not long after becoming a new MP, which is also unusual.

Clearly, it pays to have parents in high places

As The i Paper wrote in 2024:

That means that when they win power, a handful of exceptionally-connected insiders are well-placed to climb the greasy pole of influence.

But how much can we expect from our political system when the Prime Minister is allowed to accept £20k freebies for his son from Lord Alli?

It literally pays to come from money or power. And Little Labour Right daddy’s boy Jack Lubner miraculously rising to Young Labour chair through his own blood, sweat, and grift is just another example of this rotten Party that now solely serves the interests of the corporate elite.

Featured image via the Canary

By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.