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.

Nepotism:

Jack Lubner chair of Young Labour, son of Gary Lubner who just so happened to donate millions to the partyhttps://t.co/CKBA1M1yEh pic.twitter.com/yDjg3YH6Nt

— Paul Lillie (@PALillie) September 22, 2024

Labour and its Nepo babies

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

If you’d have told me when I first got involved in @YoungLabourUK when I was 16 that I would be elected National Chair, I wouldn’t have believed it

Thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this campaign

The work to rebuild Young Labour starts now 🌹 pic.twitter.com/gCTuxaBpTb

— Jack Lubner (@JackLubner) April 8, 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.

Head of young labour is jack lubner, son of millionaire donor gary lubner

— JAG 🇮🇪🇬🇧 (@evang3l10n_un1t) August 13, 2025

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.

It’s not so much that his Dad is a major Labour donor. It’s more that the chair of of Young Labour – supposedly the party of the working-class – is some millionaires son from London. If there’s one thing politics need, it’s more wealthy people in London in positions of power. https://t.co/fYTaVaZePD

— Number10 (@ElwinWay) April 9, 2024

A pattern

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

How many nepo babies does Labour have now?

Hamish Falconer, MP – Charlie Falconer’s son
Georgia Gould, MP – Philip Gould’s daughter
Liam Conlon, MP – Sue Gray’s son
Jack Lubner, National Chair of Young Labour chair – Gary Lubner’s son

More? pic.twitter.com/KLP3u795I2

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) September 19, 2024

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.

Careerists gonna career , that was the whole point . Nice secure career jobs in the gravy train

— Brian Moss (@mossbgstt) April 9, 2024

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