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THE government faces its first major setback over the Trade Union Bill in the Lords today, with peers uniting across the benches in a bid to defeat partisan Tory changes to party funding.
Labour has tabled a motion arguing that the effect of the proposals, which could slash the party’s income by £6 million a year, should be considered by a select committee.
Shadow leader of the upper house Angela Smith will argue that a committee could “take an independent view away from the heat of party-political debate in the Lords chamber.”
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
