Labour NEC poised to agree leadership nomination rule change

Jeremy Corbyn struggled to secure enough nominations to get on to the membership ballot in 2015.Labour’s national executive committee is poised to agree to a rule change that will make it easier for another leftwing candidate to run for the party leadership after Jeremy Corbyn.The NEC will vote on the idea of reducing the threshold from 15% of MPs and MEPs to 10% in order to select candidates to be placed on a ballot for members.