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Nick Clegg descended into a union-bashing diatribe yesterday after MPs confronted him about a swathe of job losses planned by one of the bosses bankrolling his re-election bid.
Autofill Yarns managing director Anthony Ullmann has pledged £34,500 to help the troubled Lib Dem leader cling on to his Sheffield Hallam seat.
But filling in at Prime Minister’s Questions for David Cameron yesterday, Mr Clegg shrugged off worries that the Nottingham firm plans to throw 134 people out of work by moving production to Bulgaria.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Making sure this Labour government delivers on decent jobs, strong workplace rights and well-funded public services will defeat the easy answers to real frustrations peddled by the far right, writes JOANNE THOMAS
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY