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UK Labour party to be first to allow public to vote in leadership contests | | Britain’s Labour is to become the first major political party to open up its leadership elections to members of the public. According to The Telegraph, ordinary
voters will be able to cast ballots in the contest to choose Ed Miliband's successors
even if they are not Labour Party members or belong to a trade union. Details
of the radical plan, are part of a wholesale review of Labour's processes being
conducted by Peter Hain, the shadow Welsh secretary. Labour party leader Ed Miliband
told a gathering of activists at Labour's National Policy Forum in Gillingham
on Saturday that the party needed to "reach out beyond our membership" and reclaim
its old mantle as the "people's party". He added: "Some people will want to join
our party. Some people will be trade union levy payers, but there are people beyond
that too that we need to make part of our decision making in this country and
that is also going to be part of Peter's review." Labour aides made it clear that
the "decision making" referred to future leadership elections. The radical change
puts pressure on the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to follow suit and opens
up their own leadership elections to ordinary voters.
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