Labour’s leadership election has been thrown into chaos after the High Court ruled that 130,000 party members who joined after January should be allowed to vote. The five challengers accused the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) of unlawfully “freezing” them and almost 130,000 other Labour members out of the contest even though they had “paid their dues”. In a judgment that could severely weaken Owen Smith’s challenge to Jeremy Corbyn and threatens to prolong the contest, the court ruled in favour of five new Labour members who said they had a legal right to vote in the election.

Source: The Times August 08, 2016 11:03 UTC