YESTERDAY’s meeting between the four Labour Party leadership candidates and acting leader Harriet Harman is unlikely to stop efforts to discredit the electoral process now underway.

Despite failing in their efforts to sabotage the ballot, some MPs, discredited former leaders and ministers will continue to cry stinking fish on the very process they once so warmly advocated.

For them, the one-member one-vote franchise for deciding Labour’s leaders was never a matter of democratic principle.