Congress 2025 was required to elect the Union’s president and vice-president. I have only been attending Congress for a few years and Barbara Plant has always chaired them. I am told that her predecessor, held the role for many years and was not required to defend her position in an election. This year, however, the election was contested. The vice-presidential position was also vacant and so Congress had hustings and elections for a new leadership team. This consisted of a nomination stage, hustings at Congress and then voting with the results being announced on Monday evening. Barbara Plant was comfortably re-elected as President, and Sonya Davies was elected as Vice President, coming first out of five, and beating into second place, Dave Douglas, a relatively young man still working at British Gas. These two both got over 100 votes, with the other three candidates, doing less well.
The presidential results were as follows
| Results for President | |
| Gordon Gibbs (Midland) | 90 |
| Barbara Plant (Southern) | 296 |
The video of the hustings speeches for both positions is below/overleaf …
Image Credit: GMB Congress 25 by dlf1955 i.e. me CC 2025 BY-ND-SA