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Gap-year scheme is ‘first step towards conscription’
UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey launched a scathing attack yesterday on shadow chancellor Ed Balls and right-wing Labour figures who “don’t get it” when it comes to ordinary people’s lives.
The union leader savaged party rightwingers' cuts trumpeting, declaring: “If we go to the electorate with a paler shade of austerity then we will lose.”
Laying down the gauntlet to opposition leader Ed Miliband, the Unite leader — who has thrown his weight behind Labour in the fight against a vicious Tory Party — said: “He’s got to enthuse our union. He’s got to enthuse our activists. He’s got to enthuse me.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
