by Our Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt

THE Labour left warned of an impending “civil war” in the party today as Sir Keir Starmer put forward plans to hand more power to MPs at the expense of thousands of ordinary members.

Labour MP Zarah Sultana said that proposals to return to an electoral college system were “elitist nonsense,” while transport union TSSA said the attempt at “gerrymandering” was the “sort of thing associated with Victorian-era Tories.”

And despite Sir Keir’s attempts to present the proposals as beneficial to unions, Unite, Labour’s biggest donor, also quickly came out to oppose them.