If you are going to outlaw party HQ's telling local parties who should be standing as their local candidate, then you are effectively banning "all-women" or "all-demographicX" lists mandated from Labour HQ, or Tory HQ etc etc etc.Questarian New Yorkshire wrote:Incidentally to Rishi Sunak, I don't think it should be allowed that MPs are placed into safe seats to which they have no connection, even if the electors happen to like them as they probably do in his case. Rishi Sunak has no connection to Yorkshire let alone Richmond so he should not be a Member of Parliament for that place.
Which isn't the worst idea in the world.