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FEARS are growing that up to 40 Labour parliamentary selections may have been rigged through the abuse of a controversial online voting system.
Two sitting MPs are threatening legal action after Anonyvoter — a system designed by Labour associates of the party’s general secretary David Evans — was used in their deselections, with police investigating alleged abuses in a third constituency.
More than 2,500 Labour members have backed a petition run by campaign group Momentum demanding an independent investigation into the system.
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