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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.
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
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
