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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Whitelees windfarm, Eaglesham
LABOUR plans to recruit hundreds of non-members to stand as MPs will mean “bypassing the talent in our movement,” the Unite union has warned.
The party is reportedly allowing non-members to take part in its future candidates programme as part of a change to election strategy under Sir Keir Starmer.
On Monday, the Times reported that party rules have been changed to allow anyone, no matter how long they have been a member, to take part in the programme, with Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s former chief of staff, understood to be in charge of the programme as well as the party’s election strategy.
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
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