Labour's gathering to approve their draft manifesto was already set to be contentious. It will be even more heated now the document they are discussing has been leaked to two newspapers.
Jeremy Corbyn has pulled out of a poster launch. His press team denies suggestions his office leaked the draft policies as "outrageous", but no one denies that only a small number of people within the Labour Party had access to this document.
Intriguingly, it was handed to the left-wing Mirror and the right-wing Telegraph. It's as if someone wanted to see how both sides would react. The timing is everything.
Under what is called Clause V, Labour's national executive committee and shadow cabinet meet with officers of the backbench party and the heads of the national policy forum to thrash out which policies from the draft make it through - but now, everyone has seen the draft.
There are many rumours circulating as to who leaked and why, but it seems there are two key possible motivations for making it public now.
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