Weekly Survey: NEC elections, the “dead hand” and Labour’s policy platform

Now that CLP nominations have closed, ballots for the National Executive Committee (NEC) will soon start arriving with Labour Party members. With thirteen candidates vying for six places, who do you think you’ll be voting for?

Labour’s policy chief Jon Cruddas appeared on the front page of the Sunday Times this weekend, having been recorded saying there is “a dead hand” at the centre of the party blocking big policy ideas. Mark Ferguson was unhappy about this, arguing it is Cruddas’s job to get things moving, not complain about a slow process.

Does he have a point? Should he have kept it to himself? Or were The Sunday Times in the wrong for recording him? Let us know.

With the policy review Cruddas oversees almost at an end, how are you feeling about Labour’s policy platform next year? Are you optimistic about our offer to the people in 2015, or do you fear the influence of the “profound dead hand at the centre”? We want to know.

Our Weekly Survey will be open until noon on Thursday and can be taken here.