Primary Costs

There are those who argue that primaries would be crashingly expensive, including a supporter of them in principle, Frank Field, as I write. Where is Lord Levy or the Lord Ashcroft when you need him? Anyway, these need not be postal ballots. Electoral registers are easy to obtain, and political parties already have them. These ballots could be conducted like other elections, with ballot boxes at polling stations. The main cost would then be room hire, assuming that the local party did not already own or have the use of anywhere suitable. They could all club together and hire somewhere on a single day. Easy.