Starmer backs limits on local party delegations

Keir Starmer has supported moves to introduce a new limit on the size of local party delegations to Conference, via a rule change that would see no more than six members sent from each Constituency Labour Party. Labour’s ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), voted to put forward the constitutional amendment for approval at this year’s Conference. The vote saw 16 NEC members support the reform and 11 oppose it.

Another proposal being sent to Liverpool by the NEC will – if passed – force local parties to put in constitutional amendments one year in advance of Conference. Corbynite group Momentum described it as a “power grab”.

Rule changes agreed by Labour’s NEC are usually signed off by delegates. The party’s leadership has opted not to focus on reshaping the rulebook this year after enacting significant changes in 2021.