Grangemouth, Falkirk, Ineos intimidation, VAT underpayments, and now this. The Unite leader is an anti-Midas.
Say what you like about Lord Kinnock. At least he was tough about resisting Militant. Mr Miliband seems determined to appease them in their new incarnation.
Whether it is on energy prices, education, the criminal justice system or industrial relations, Labour remains entrenched on the side of vested interests and unions.
If the Labour leader is serious about recruiting more MPs from working-class backgrounds, he needs to start finding them
Red Len’s men are a disgrace, who should have no place in public life.
Former Home Secretary says Labour should “actively consider reopening the investigation” into the Falkirk scandal.
New evidence emerges of Unite officials plotting the takeover – and running a coverup.
Unite is now one of the Labour leader’s “predators” – surely he should stop taking Red Len’s money.
It seems he thinks bashing tax avoiders should be a tax-exempt activity.
The Unite leader and the Shadow Chancellor demanded scalps – and they’ve got them.
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Ed Miliband's increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the unions has many facets: the potential perverting of democracy, the gloomy prospects for Labour's finances, the insights into Miliband's weak character and weaker authority, the list goes on. Left wing optimists would argue that in the long run it makes little difference to the […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The deal seems to be that Karie Murphy is reinstated as a Labour member (which pleases Len McCluskey), that she withdraws from the contest for the Party's Parliamentary candidacy in Falkirk (which pleases Ed Miliband) and that Labour says that there is no proof of wrongdoing either by them […]
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. It has now been two months since Ed Miliband made his big speech intended to nip in the bud the crisis over Labour's trade union funding. We still don't have any answers to the many questions about how his reforms will work in detail – most notably whether he will reject […]
By JP Floru Socialists want you to be terrified when you think of forests. In the absence of a policy of their own (I searched for three hours but couldn’t find any on the web) the best the Labour Party and their acolytes have come up with to attack the Government’s plans on forests is … […]