The gaping divisions between MPs and members can be resolved creatively or very destructively Related: The 10 best Labour conference speeches To whom does a political party belong? To its leader? To the MPs who hold been elected in the party’s colours to represent it in parliament? To the party’s members? To the organisations who founded the party and still pay most of its bills,which in Labour’s case are the trades unions? This question doesn’t often pain anyone except political scientists, but who owns the Labour party suddenly things a great deal. It will be one of the big questions – perhaps the biggest, and certainly a more vital,question than whether or not Jeremy Corbyn can master reading from an autocue – at the party’s conference in Brighton.
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Source: theguardian.com