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LABOUR’S next leader is set to face their first test at the Trades Union Congress, according to the election timetable agreed by the party’s executive yesterday.
Voting will get underway in mid August and the new leader will be unveiled at a special conference on Saturday September 12 — a day before TUC congress begins in Brighton.
That means the winner is likely to give their first address as leader, aside from an acceptance speech, to thousands of workers representing 51 trade unions.
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
