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McCluskey slams ‘rancid and very cruel’ behaviour exposed in Labour's leaked report
Unite leader demands answers over potential misuse of funds contributed by unions to the party

LEN McCLUSKEY hit back today at the “politically crooked” Labour officials who conspired to take down Jeremy Corbyn as revealed in a leaked report. 

The Unite leader made his first public response to shocking revelations that senior party officials had deliberately worked for a Labour defeat in the 2017 general election. 

He stressed that the findings from the leaked report, which looked into how Labour HQ handled complaints of anti-semitism, “cannot be swept under the carpet.” 

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