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SOLOMON HUGHES delves into a consultancy that claims it 'grew out of the labour movement'
DISQUIETING IMPLICATIONS: Labour leader Keir Starmer and the Parliamentary Labour Party welcome newly elected MP Alistair Strathernto the Houses of Parliament on October 24, 2023.

THE Labour Party was born from the 1900 Labour Representation Committee: rail and dock workers’ delegates persuaded the TUC to try increase representation of “Labour” — meaning the organised working people — in the House of Commons.  

The unions put in money and worked with leading socialists to find good potential MPs. By 1906 this union-backed group of socialists had enough parliamentary seats to rename themselves the Labour Party.

So what does it mean when corporate lobbyists fund the election of Labour MPs, and many of those MPs come from corporate backgrounds? Does this mean a Lobbyists Representation Committee has formed? Do they want Labour to represent their clients — in short , do they want the Labour Party to represent capital?

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