Lord Collins today delivered his interim report on Building a One Nation Labour Party to the National Executive Committee. To download a copy please click here.

The report, which will be discussed by Conference on Sunday, sets out the principles of reforms which Ed Miliband has declared will make Labour rooted deeper in the lives of working people and their communities.

It then asks a series of deliberately open-ended questions about how to:

* Develop a new relationship between the Labour Party and individual members of our affiliate organisations.
* Standardise constituency development plans.
* Use primaries to engage a wider public in Labour’s selection of candidates including that for London Mayor.
* Ensure fairness and transparency in Labour’s selections.

A final report will be published next year after a consultation ranging wide and deep across all sections of the party.

The NEC agreed this week that the changes recommended in Lord Collins’s final report will be voted upon at a Special Conference of the Labour Party on March 1 in London.

Lord Collins said:

“This interim report sets out some ideas for building a party that seeks to reach out to all walks of life, campaigns as a grassroots movement for change in every community, and give more people more say in the future of our country. As such, if our party did not already have a close relationship with trade unions, I would be recommending that we build one. But for too long we have operated with structures which were laid down in a different era. I want to hear all the ideas from people across our movement about how we can improve the way our party works, building on Refounding Labour. My initial view is that the changes Ed Miliband has proposed can help strengthen Labour as the voice of working people so that we can better change Britain.”

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:

“These reforms are about bringing people back into the decisions which affect their lives by mending, not ending, our link with trade unions. They present a huge opportunity for Labour to become a party or many more – a party rooted in every kind of workplace and in every community of our country - a genuine living, breathing movement. While One Nation Labour is determined to hear the voice of the people in our party, David Cameron won’t listen to the ordinary families caught in the cost of living crisis. That is why he stands up only for a privileged few and is out of touch.”