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Miliband needs to wake up
Labour and the unions

Ed Miliband’s decision to use tomorrow’s speech to the TUC conference to stick to his guns over union links with Labour is an act of supreme folly.

He originally announced this own goal as a knee-jerk reaction to false allegations that the Unite union had broken party rules in the run-up to a by-election in Falkirk.

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