Ed Miliband is under mounting Labour pressure to curb the power of the party's trade union founders amid growing concern about their attempts to secure more union-backed MPs. Labour admitted that an internal inquiry had discovered that up to 500 new party members had had their subscriptions paid by unions in the past year. The disclosure followed allegations that Unite, Labour's biggest donor, recruited up to 100 party members in Falkirk, Scotland, in the hope of installing its...
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