The announcements are made and the endorsements are in - and it promises to be quite the race to be named as Labour ’s candidate for the new Bristol North East seat in Parliament.
Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees has won the backing of every single union affiliate branch in the new constituency, but it may not be a straightforward procession for Mr Rees from the city’s directly-elected mayor to parliament.
The first and only affiliate organisation to hold a hustings and allow its members to choose who it will be backing in the race has done so - and the current Mayor of Lewisham Damien Egan comfortably won that vote. But ultimately, it will be around 800 paid-up members of the Labour Party in the new constituency, most of whom live in Eastville, Hillfields and Fishponds, who will decide who should be the candidate to fight the next election.
