The Labour Party has to have real conferences
Jon Lansman, secretary of the Labour Party Democracy Task Force, spoke to Martin Thomas. Labour Party Democracy Task Force: http://labourdemocracy.wordpress.com . MT: In recent months, over 40,000 people have joined the Labour Party. That's quite a big figure in terms of today's politics. What's your assessment? JL: We don't really know the complexion of those numbers. Some may well be disaffected Lib Dems. However, it's pretty clear that some of them are people who've previously resigned from the party in disgust at previous shifts to the right and are now returning. That's good news. We want...