Greg Husrt, Political Correspondent | TimesOnline
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John Cruddas, the only candidate from outside the Cabinet to stand for the post, suggested that the party would have no members in less than a decade if it kept losing them at the same rate.
Since 1997, when membership peaked at 405,000, Labour had lost more than half its members, Mr Cruddas said. The trend accelerated after 2000 to the equivalent of 27,000 lost members a year. If such a rate continued, Labour, which has just under 200,000 members, would have lost them all by 2013, he told the BBC. More...
