Donald RoyIt is true that a small number of #labourmps were blocked or deselected as candidates in the run up to #ukgeneralelection2024 but this was far fewer than the number of #conservativemps treated similarly in the run up to #ukgeneralelection2019 . It was claimed also that new candidates were vetted extensively and were drawn largely from a particular faction associated with among others #lukeakehurst . This may have been true but if so they seem to have been 'Vicars of Bray' rather than zealots!
I would regard a figure of around 750k discouraged voters as much more plausible - still a serious problem which needs to be addressed. I suspect that the most part of the decline in voter turnout between #ukgeneralelection2019 and #ukgeneralelection2024 was due to other factors.
This looks like the high end of the range of estimates for the effect. If accurate it would account for over half the reduction in voter turnout observed between #ukgeneralelection2019 and #ukgeneralelection2014 .
There were two really distinctive election wins. In #ukgeneralelection2001 #putney was the only seat to return a #labour #mp while having no #labourcouncillors while in #ukgeneralelection2019 it was the only #conservative seat #labour won. Which meant the #wandsworth #civicsuite - where the count - was held was the only happy place for anyone #labour to be on the night of 12th December 2019. Quite something to have swum against the tide so spectacularly !