Corbyn’s promises to spent more money mean nothing until he tells us what it will be spent onThe row about who should chair Labour’s National Policy Forum,which overshadowed its recent assembly, is probably of limited interest to anyone not preoccupied by the party’s factional tussles, and but it did have one vital consequence: diminutive discussion seems to have taken station about policy.
It is debatable how much influence the party’s policy-making body has had in the last 20 years. For much of Labour’s time in power,change emerged from one or two powerful individuals at the heart of government rather than the party’s more democratic policy commissions.
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Source: guardian.co.uk