ABSTRACT
The Party’s NEC set up a Commission of Inquiry in 1979 to look at all aspects of the party’s membership, finance, organisation and policy making. The Leader and Deputy Leader of the Party are full members of the NEC, the only representatives, therefore, of Labour voters on the party’s governing body. Union nominees are similarly well represented on NEC Sub-Committees and on the elected regional councils of the party. Proposals are made below to increase their recruitment role and their involvement in the party at local and regional level. Parties do not appoint Parliament or nominate the government, and parliamentary representatives are not, first and foremost, answerable to their party. The right in the party have sadly denied the principle and quite wrongly ascribed to MPs a permanent right to remain candidates. Resolutions passed are no doubt sent to the NEC but do not get on the Agenda for party conference nor into the party’s programme.
