Unite boss says excluding Corbyn from Labour leadership ballot would be ‘sordid fix’ – Politics live

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Len McCluskey, the Unite general secretary, has been on the Today programme. He said that if Labour’s national executive committee tries to exclude Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour leadership contest when it meets this afternoon, that would be a “sordid fix”.

Len McCluskey says it would be ‘a sordid fix’ if Jeremy Corbyn is not automatically on the ballot. #r4today

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