Chuka weighs in on primaries debate on Next Left

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Labour’s candidate for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, has followed up from last week’s Tweet and written a full post in support of Labour primaries. In the article on NextLeft, Chuka says:

“On the primaries issue, I find myself sitting on the other side of the fence to many with whom I agree on most things; I may not sit comfortably where I am but it would be dishonest to plant myself anywhere else. I have been in favour of primaries for some time. I agree with the majority of the points put very eloquently by Sunder Katwala in his Next Left post but my principal motivations for supporting primaries are to help break the grip of the “hackocracy” over selections and a desire to select people who, if elected, will question more and not be so willing to accept the old ways of doing things.”

Read the full post here.