Labour lowers requirement to trigger selection of new Parliamentary candidates
Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee has reduced the required number of votes needed to trigger the selection of new Parliamentary candidates.
The decision means constituency Labour parties may more easily rid themselves of MPs who members feel no longer have the good of the party at heart.
This may include those who have spoken out against party leader Jeremy Corbyn because they do not share his political views, rather than over any wrong-doing he may be perceived to have carried out.
It may also include those who have deliberately attempted to hinder Labour’s electoral chances while Mr Corbyn is leader.
But the rule change also means members of the party’s right-wing may take advantage too – in order to remove supporters of Mr Corbyn and/or his policies.
Skwawkbox (quoted below) suggests that all those who wish to ensure the Parliamentary Labour Party more adequately resembles its left-wing membership need to get organised now, contacting their CLP secretaries to ensure they can make the necessary arrangements, and This Writer agrees.
The full procedures document can be downloaded here.
Labour members eager for the opportunity to choose a new parliamentary representative now have a green light to start the ‘trigger’ process – and some will face a lower hurdle to successfully force a full selection contest, after the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) agreed a change to the application of the ‘one in three branches’ trigger threshold.
In Labour’s new trigger rules, one in three member branches must vote for a selection contest in order to ‘trigger’ one.
However, the total from which ‘one in three’ will be calculated will be of those branches participating in the vote’, not of all branches in the CLP. Moribund branches therefore cannot be used by supporters of MPs hoping to avoid a selection contest to raise the bar.
Source: Excl: green light for triggers as Labour NEC lowers bar further | The SKWAWKBOX
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