Leadership, unions and fees – Ed Miliband’s fight back?
Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes
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Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes
Up here in Liverpool, Ed Miliband is on the point of announcing a compromise deal with the trade unions on how you get “registered supporters” involved in electing Labour’s leader.
Unions representing over 3 million workers in the public and private sectors across the UK are balloting their members on a nationwide “day of action” on November 30.
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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged trade unions not to fall into the Government’s “trap” of calling mass strikes in opposition to planned public sector pension reforms.
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