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Trade unionists yesterday hit back after Tory chairman Grant Shapps attempted to smear the Labour-union link.
In an attack briefed to the Daily Mail, Mr Shapps said union-backed Labour candidates “all dance to Len McCluskey’s ruinous tune.
“Ed Miliband’s chief union paymaster installed him as leader and is now buying up Labour candidates across the country,” he whined.
The paper claimed 101 out of 301 parliamentary candidates are linked to Unite, and 190 are linked to at least one trade union.
North London-based Labour councillor Tom Miller tweeted: “Appalled that the the Mail can identify over 100 Lab MPs with ‘no links’ to unions. PLP rules are supposed to mean they are all members!”
A Unite spokesman said: “We need more working people in Parliament — people who understand the daily realities of living under this coalition government, who have spent the last four years cutting the living standards of millions of people.
“We need less of the bankers’ friends who frankly don’t give a damn about ordinary people.”
