The Telegraph
The leader of Labour’s largest trade
union paymaster has warned it could start backing SNP candidates in
Scotland unless Ed Miliband’s successor adopts his Left-wing policy
agenda.
Len McCluskey, the general
secretary of Unite, said his union will consider several resolutions
from Scottish members at special conference in July that would scrap the
rule meaning they can only back Labour candidates.
He said most of his Scottish members voted SNP in the general election
and warned the new leader’s “challenge” to retain his union’s exclusive
support is to ensure that they are “the voice of organised labour”.
But the union boss was forced to reject an attack from Jim Murphy, the outgoing Scottish Labour leader,
that it would be the “kiss of death” for Labour if it bowed to Mr
McCluskey’s demands and he must not be allowed to influence the
selection of the new leader.
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