Far-reaching reforms that change Labour‘s historic links with trade unions were backed by 86% to 14% at a special conference today.
Most speakers at the London meeting praised the changes to the party’s structures that were put forward by Ed Miliband following controversy over Unite’s involvement in the selection of a Labour candidate in Falkirk last year.
The Labour leader insisted the biggest transfer of power in its history would help build a strong party that would help make the voices of working people “louder”.
A defiant Len McCluskey said the changes would increase trade union involvement in the party and insisted Unite was “going nowhere”.
Mr Miliband told unions, MPs and other delegates : “I am proud of our link with working people and with trade unions.
“I want to hear the voices of working people to be heard louder in our party than ever before and in the 21st century not everyone wants to be a member of a political party.”
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Labour backs far-reaching reforms
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