In less than half an hour, Labour’s conference is due to vote on rule changes including the controversial one-member-one-vote proposal for its national policy forum (see Chris’ post below) which could make it easier for more left-wing policies to be adopted by the party – a move the Labour leadership bitterly opposes.
But there’ve been two developments. One: the conference arrangements committee has said that the result of the vote will be delayed till tomorrow. Two: one of the rebel proponents of the move has told me “No 10 say they expect us to win”. All the unions are backing the move, except the highly loyalist USDAW which has now said it’ll abstan, so the weight of votes is shifting in the rebels’ favour. More later…
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