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CRITICISM of trade unions was cut at the last moment from a speech on Labour’s leadership contest delivered yesterday by Harriet Harman.
The acting leader spoke about the need to “let the public in” on the process by staging a live televised debate and open public hustings.
But she was due to say that the next leader would not be the “choice of the unions” when she addressed the press at the party’s Westminster headquarters.
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
