Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer plans to reform the way the party’s leader is elected, but is facing stiff resistance from the left wing of the party, which has warned the move could trigger a “civil war.”
The current “one member, one vote” system introduced under former Labour leader Ed Miliband was widely seen as a key factor in the election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader in 2015, when thousands of far left activists joined and swung the party further to the left.
