Len McCluskey’s appearances on the Labour conference fringe will generate plenty of headlines over the next few days. But one potentially consequential statement the Unite general secretary made this afternoon has passed by largely unnoticed.
Speaking at a fringe event hosted by the Daily Mirror, McCluskey said that his union was moving towards supporting Labour candidates in Northern Ireland, where the party has members but does not run in elections. It instead supports the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, its sister organisation.
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