Will Tony Blair change his mind?

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Originally Posted by lars573

Sounds familiar. Minus trade unions getting a vote. For us all party members get an equal vote.

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I think the Liberal Democrats and recently the Conservatives have one member one vote (although with the Tories, only the two candidates with the most MP votes are put on the ballot paper).

With the Labour Party, there was a fear that the party members might push the party too far to the left (perhaps not unlike the Conservative party members electing a mediocre right wing stiff - Ian Duncan-Holmes - as their leader at the first opportunity). Plus the affiliated trade unions still bankroll the party to some degree and of course created it about a 100 years ago. Trade unions are now required to ballot their members, so this will involve more of the public than just covering individual party members.

BTW: I was wrong about the 30:30:40 split - it's now a third each.

It seems here that most parties use a two round election. And the leadership convention is a 2-3 day event. Not sure how cadidates are chosen.