In a letter to Labour Party General Secretary Iain McNicol, Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey has said that he has lost trust in Labour HQ and its investigations – and calls for an independent inquiry.
The gross opportunism of the government – using a lobbying crisis to try and clamp down on the unions – has received an understandably robust response from several unions already this evening.
Progress are today launching a “Tax Avoidance Charter” ahead of the G8 meeting next month. They’ll be arguing that there’s no excuse for inaction on tax avoidance in the UK and that it is “simply unfair a group of global corporations and wealthy individuals are avoiding paying their fair share”.
David Miliband has confirmed that he’s stepping down as an MP, and therefore from British politics for good.
There’s a conventional wisdom challenging poll out from the Guardian/ICM today. Conventional wisdom says that Labour’s poll lead has stabilised at…