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UNITE leader Len McCluskey demanded an investigation yesterday into last weekend’s scandal-hit Young Labour election, which right-wing candidate Jasmin Beckett won by a single vote.
Mr McCluskey said evidence of misconduct in her election as youth representative to Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) “grows stronger by the minute.”
And he called on Labour general secretary Iain McNicol to “restore faith and trust in Young Labour” by taking action.
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ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
