"What do our candidates believe, what are their views on this matter?"
Redo the whole selection, hustings and voting process? This candidate to be a candidate thinks that this might not be all that wise an idea. Roughly speaking there's a hundred or so people standing....and there's some 15,000 people potentially making decisions about how to vote.
If you wanted to delay the vote by three or four weeks, well, memories don't last for ever. You'd need to run the hustings again, wouldn't you?
All that organisation, all those people, again?
Further, does anyone really believe that whatever deal is reached (or might be, could be, whatever) will happen at that first meeting? That it won't carry on for a few more weeks or months as positions are laid out, considered, negotiated and so on?
For me personally a delay might be good, but for the party and its finances I really rather doubt that it would be.
So in my opinion, no, not a good idea.
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