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TRADE unions defied calls from plotting MPs to accept the Labour coup yesterday by rallying to support the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
Lucy Powell, who resigned as shadow education secretary on Sunday, deepened the rift between the party’s MPs and members as she ordered affiliated unions to butt out.
“I think certain trade union leaders should probably get on with their own jobs and leave the Labour Party to Labour Party members and the elected leadership,” she told Radio 4’s Today programme.
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
Following comments made by Robert Jenrick about the people of Handsworth, the TUC, together with 12 trade unions representing members who live and work in the area, have issued a joint letter calling for the Conservative Party to take immediate action
