You may find this text useful to adapt. If left MPs come up in good time with a candidate to seek MP nominations, as we hop they will, you can add a clause stating support for that candidate. The NEC will run the election by opening nominations to MPs first, and only then to CLPs and unions, but in doing so it is flouting the rulebook, which gives no indication of such a “two-stage” process.

We believe a real debate in the Labour Party and wider labour movement is needed on how to change direction and defeat Reform.

We we concur with the direction of Nadia Whittome MP’s statement: “When Keir stood to be Labour leader in 2020, he ran on a platform that largely had my support. That platform – which included taxing the rich, public ownership, putting human rights at the heart of foreign policy, and defending migrants’ rights – came far closer to meeting the demands of our times than the direction in which he took the party afterwards.

“We should return to those ideas and our party’s core values, while restoring party democracy to safeguard against the same errors being made in the future.”

Moreover, an uncontested “coronation” would be damaging, looking like a closed doors “stitch-up”, not the practice of a democratic organisation, and an exercise in changing leader with no debated change in policy.

We therefore call on MPs to give nominations to allow a left candidate in this election.

And we support rebuilding of Labour Party democracy, including abolition of the National Policy Forum and a sovereign policy-making annual conference, local parties’ right to select their own candidates unimpeded, mandatory reselection of MPs, an end to purges, and other reforms.