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LABOUR will lose almost a third of its entire budget if “partisan” curbs on union funding are “smuggled” through Parliament, its general secretary Iain McNicol warned yesterday.
He told the first session of a special Lords committee set up to consider party funding changes within the Trade Union Bill that they would have “significant consequences” for Labour and British democracy.
Plans to make union members opt-in to trade union political funds — by post — would lead to a 90 per cent drop in the number of workers affiliated to Labour, he predicted.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords