麻豆社

The founder of the Corbynite Momentum grass roots group has claimed a key vote at Labour conference was "rigged".

Jon Lansman was speaking after allies of Jeremy Corbyn failed to delay Labour's Scottish and Welsh leaders from making appointments to Labour's National Executive Committee.

They fear the move will water down Mr Corbyn's influence on the committee. The conference on Tuesday decided by a show of hands rather than a card vote to consider the reforms as one package. That was then voted through by conference.

Mr Lansman told The World At One's Martha Kearney the conference vote had been rigged "in a disgraceful way" and the result was a "colossal under representation" of 550,000 Labour members.