Consulting members is very important, but so are elected representatives, independent experts and public polling. Labour’s leader is trying to shut the latter out.
The Labour Party has fallen prey to the hard left. It is our job to make sure it never gets near office again.
We can’t win a workable majority without breaking through in more seats in the urban and suburban North and Midlands.
Cllr Jim McMahon has argued there was “no alternative” to a Council Tax rise.
A councillor in Bury, he contested Bolton North East in the General Election.
Candidates can apply to 22 “clusters” of seats across the country.