This morning on Andrew Marr, Ed Miliband announced that he favours a cap of £5,000 on all donations to political parties – including donations from trade unions – in a bid to take the “big money” out of British politics.
However such a cap would not apply to the levy that affiliated unions pay to Labour, as that is the combined individual donations of millions of union members. Miliband defended the union link, saying that millions of union affiliates “keep us rooted” in the communities we seek to represent.
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