Reforming the selection of leaders is only the start of Sir Keir’s troubles
His party will struggle to right itself in Westminster if it cannot make headway in Holyrood
AS LABOUR MEMBERS prepared for the party’s conference in Brighton, starting on September 25th, their leader, Sir Keir Starmer, guaranteed fireworks by proposing a change to how his successors would be selected. If he gets his way, out goes the one-member-one-vote system introduced in 2014 and back comes an electoral college, with votes split between MPs, party members and unions. It is an attempt to sideline the left-wingers who led Labour to electoral disaster under Sir Keir’s far-left predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “North-south divide”
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