Brown plans new curbs on unions' political voice, and paves way for Tories to do worse
Gordon Brown has responded to the funding scandals by reopening the question of increased state funding for political parties, and curbs on trade unions' rights to fund political parties. His speech to the Labour Party National Policy Forum at the start of December is reproduced in full on the Labour Party website . For informative background from Peter Kenyon's blog, click here . Brown's speech was vague, and according to comrades who were at the National Policy Forum, no precise proposals were put to the Forum. The best guess seems to be that Brown will go for: - Some harmless reforms of the...