The timetable for the leadership election has been announced:
- 24 May: PLP nominations open
- 9 June: PLP nominations close
- 10 June: Supporting nominations open
- 26 July: Close of nominations (hustings will take place from 10 June to 26 July)
- 16 August to 22 September: Ballot of all members
- 8 September: ‘Freeze date’ for new members to participate
- 25 September: Result announced, just before conference
Here is Julian Priestley’s take on the leadership election:
EUROPE TOO MUST BE PART OF LABOUR’S GREAT DEBATE
The more leisurely timetable for electing Labour’s new leader affords the opportunity for a full debate about the party’s future orientation. A few years ago to have suggested that Europe be part of the discussion would have been to invite a reopening of old schisms. But the party has moved on- its rather tepidly pro-European 2010 manifesto provoked no internal schism. Continue reading Leadership election timetable, and Julian Priestley’s view