Brown’s Oxford speech - Members to get say!

After a frantic weekend at the Compass conference and helping at a concert in a local church, it is time to catch up with who said what in Oxford. Best of the headlines goes to the Independent ‘Brown says party members must shape policy’. Andrew Grice reported;

In the next few weeks, Mr Brown will unveil a package of party reforms, which will impose a "duty" on the leadership to give members a say over government policy. In return, constituency parties will have a similar "duty" to form closer links with local community groups and involve non-Labour members in their policy discussions. Speaking to young Labour members at a leadership hustings in Oxford yesterday, the incoming prime minister said: "We need a 21st-century party to meet 21st-century challenges. That requires us to involve and engage ourselves in all our communities and also to consult the membership and make them fully involved in making policy in the future." 

After 11 drafts of the LabOUR Commission report, excuse me. Am I dreaming? This suggests that all those cynics who have taken part in the polls on the LabOUR Commission website might be wide of the mark. Fingers crossed.