I cannot see how it is news that supporters of the twice-elected Leader of the Labour Party have been elected to its National Executive Committee. It would have been news if his opponents had been. But consider that each of the Momentum-backed candidates received over 60,000 votes. That is about as many as the entire membership of the Conservative Party.
If Constituency Labour Parties do not exist to select and reselect, or deselect, parliamentary candidates, then what, exactly, are they for? That question presents itself with particular starkness here in North West Durham, where the CLP was told last year that not only was no one in it capable of being a parliamentary candidate, but no one in it was even permitted to have any say in who that candidate was to be.
If Constituency Labour Parties do not exist to select and reselect, or deselect, parliamentary candidates, then what, exactly, are they for? That question presents itself with particular starkness here in North West Durham, where the CLP was told last year that not only was no one in it capable of being a parliamentary candidate, but no one in it was even permitted to have any say in who that candidate was to be.
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