Momentum-backed candidates have won election to Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee in a landslide, with Seema Chandwani and Billy Hayes, the former general secretary of the CWU, getting more than twice the votes of their opponents, shadow justice minister Gloria De Piero and Labour peer Michael Cashman, who were supported by Labour First and Progress, the two largest Corbynsceptic organisations. It attests to Jeremy Corbyn’s growing strength in the party – even in his previous landslide in 2015, Corbynsceptics retained control of the CAC.
Although the victory is a morale boost for Corbyn and his allies and bodes well for Richard Leonard’s chances of emerging as the victor in the Scottish Labour leadership election, it will have little immediate impact, as the new CAC only takes post at the end of this year’s Labour conference, as is usual.
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