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LABOUR donor John Mills has rubbished reports that he is to cut off cash to the party after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader, writes Luke James.
The Daily Telegraph made the claim yesterday in a front-page story, which also alleged that Mr Mills (pictured) would fund new Blairite “insurgency” group Labour for the Common Good.
But the JML tycoon hit back, describing the story as “utterly untrue” and “wholly inaccurate.”
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
