A dispiriting piece by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian yesterday.

She talks about chairing one of the Labour Leadership hustings and complains it is dire. The format is too constraining. It snuffs out all spontaneity. It doesn't work. She wants a re-think.

Why are people bored and turned off by this leadership election?

How can we bring it to life?

Have the Blair and Broon years sucked all the oxygen out of the Party?

Perhaps the answer is for the candidates to be brave enough to tell us what they really think.

So, Diane, if you are pressed on scrapping Trident and asked by Andrew Neill if you would get rid of all the UK's nuclear weapons, just say yes.

Whoever wins the leadership, I'd like a new settlement where the Party and the PLP can start voting on things again.

Over the Blair Brown years the PLP was weaned off voting. I still find it astonishing (and I was there) that there was no Party vote in the PLP on whether we should go to war against Iraq. MPs from sister democracies were incredulous that such a thing could happen.

How liberating it would be for the Party to start voting on issues – such as the future of the Royal Mail – and for the vote to mean something.