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Labour Party activists warned of a deep crisis for the party yesterday as Britain's biggest union slashed its membership payments.
Unite announced that it will halve its membership contribution from £3 million to £1.5 million annually.
The union will affiliate just half a million of its members to Labour at £3 each - instead of one million members.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
