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LABOUR will withdraw support for new surveillance powers if no safeguards are provided to prevent spying on trade unionists, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said yesterday.
He said it would be an “abdication of responsibility” for public safety to adopt outright opposition to the government’s Investigatory Powers Bill at its second reading and ordered Labour MPs to abstain in the vote.
But Mr Burnham warned Home Secretary Theresa May that Labour would sabotage the Bill’s progress through Parliament unless she offered more privacy protections.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
