Unite
The Unite general secretary claims that my piece on him was "a distortion". Here's why it wasn't.
Len McCluskey's union enters negotiations on a formal merger with the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association and more could follow.
Labour peer says the Unite head is "the man who reminds us of where we came from and what we left behind" after McCluskey's attack on him in the NS.
The Labour leader moves swiftly to condemn the Unite general secretary over his comments to the New Statesman.
Unite general secretary says Miliband will be "defeated" and "cast into the dustbin of history" if he gets "seduced" by "the Jim Murphys and the Douglas Alexanders".
The freshly re-elected Unite general secretary tells the New Statesman that Labour will lose if Miliband is swayed by "the Jim Murphys and the Douglas Alexanders".
The stale prescriptions offered by the likes of Alan Johnson are the road to defeat and working class disappointment.
What is one day of paralysis compared with a lifetime of poorly-funded and under-staffed services?
Miliband should condemn McCluskey's Olympics threat but he can't "rein him in".
Nowhere does the Unite general secretary acknowledge the £79bn deficit that Labour would inherit.
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