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LABOUR will lose almost a third of its entire budget if “partisan” curbs on union funding are “smuggled” through Parliament, its general secretary Iain McNicol warned yesterday.
He told the first session of a special Lords committee set up to consider party funding changes within the Trade Union Bill that they would have “significant consequences” for Labour and British democracy.
Plans to make union members opt-in to trade union political funds — by post — would lead to a 90 per cent drop in the number of workers affiliated to Labour, he predicted.
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