By Sienna Rodgers

Mandatory reselection is one of those debates that pops up regularly in the expanded Labour Party. Many new members have taken up the cause championed for decades by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD), of which Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn were at the forefront in the ‘80s, and have urged reform of the current ‘trigger ballot’ system. Currently, if a sitting Labour MP wishes to restand and it’s not a snap general election, the Constituency Labour Party’s branches […]