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PEERS told the Tories yesterday that they must water down partisan changes to party funding concealed within the Trade Union Bill.
A cross-party Lords committee rubbished the government’s claim that forcing trade unions to adopt an opt-in system for political funds would have no effect on the Labour Party.
Labour predicts that it could lose up to £1 million a year and the committee agreed that the party would face a “sizeable negative impact.”
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR