This is an updated version of the motion, to take into account the launch of trigger ballots by the NEC

Please pass this motion to the NEC at your branch and your CLP

This branch/CLP notes:

The trigger ballot reform passed by Conference in 2018.

That in 2017, Labour MPs who wished to stand again were automatically reselected.

That many CLPs entitled to do so have not yet completed trigger ballots for or against an open selection of parliamentary candidates for the coming general election.

That in the event of a snap general election being called before selections are completed, sitting MPs may be reselected automatically in spite of any trigger ballots.

This branch/CLP believes:

Labour members have a democratic right to select their parliamentary candidates.

For these rights to be abrogated for two general elections in a row would mean many Labour members have had no say in the selection of their parliamentary candidates since 2015. This would leave an indefensible democratic deficit that the NEC must take emergency measures to prevent.