This week, the Times reported that Labour’s hard left and Rotherham charities were seeking to unseat the town’s MP Sarah Champion.

She, of course, resigned from Labour’s front bench last year, after writing in the Sun newspaper that the country has a problem with “British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.”

Aside from these comments, I tweeted, Champion was first selected as a candidate in acrimonious circumstances, which I covered as a reporter for the Left Futures website back in 2012.

Labour members were said to be infuriated by the fact that no local candidate appeared on the shortlist. The two so-called moderate candidates were Champion and Sophy Gardner, a former RAF wing commander.

At the selection meeting, a large number of members — reported variously at a number between 114 and 140 — walked out in protest at the procedure.

Arguably, this means Rotherham members have never had the opportunity to endorse Champion in a fair contest. So it’s no surprise they should want an open selection now.

But with all of Labour’s new candidates from last year’s snap election imposed from above — including Scotland’s six new Labour MPs — Rotherham won’t be the last example of such discontent. North and south of the border, demands for mandatory reselection could start to get that little bit louder.