One simple (and dare I say elegant, democratic) device open to Gordon Brown to silence the plotters would be to ask the new General Secretary Ray Collins to circulate nomination papers for Leader/Deputy to Labour Party CLPs and affiliated unions and socialist societies ahead of Conference 2008 in accordance with Party Rules.

Members in my Constituency Labour Party (CLP) - Cities of London and Westminster - are to be given a say in deciding who our 2007 Annual Conference delegate should vote for in the London region section of the National Policy Forum representatives   ballot next month. It will be a postal affair.