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Harman anti-union rant gets the chop
Acting leader’s critical speech edited at last minute

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.

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