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‘Union man’ Halfon voted rights away
Top Tory behind ‘workers’ party’ drive accused of hypocrisy

TORIES pledging to set up a Conservative trade union movement were branded hypocrites yesterday, after it emerged that the project’s leading light had a record of voting against workers’ rights.

Essex MP and Tory deputy chairman Robert Halfon has announced plans to launch the Conservative Workers and Trade Union Movement — which would operate within his party but offer membership to those outside.

Mr Halfon “There will be a voice for moderate trade unionists who feel they may have sympathy with the Conservatives or even just feel that they’re not being represented by militant trade union leaders.”

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