With Lisa Nandy making it onto the ballot paper in the Labour leadership contest, the competition has just got rather less predictable. It had previously been assumed that the final fight before the membership would consist of a battle between Corbynism and not-Corbynism in the form of Rebecca Long-Bailey vs Keir Starmer. Now, presuming Long-Bailey makes it too, there will be a much wider debate.
So far, though Nandy hasn’t had any nominations from constituency Labour parties, while Starmer and Long-Bailey have got 15 and five respectively. While they don’t need to get the required 33 CLPs if they already have three affiliate organisations, including two trade unions, the candidates will still want to show they have local party support. CLP nominations are, if nothing else, an indicator of what the membership is thinking as the party heads for the final round.
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