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Len McCluskey

Index Len McCluskey

Leonard David "Len" McCluskey (born 23 July 1950) is a British trade unionist. [1]

85 relations: Amicus, Andrew Marr, Andrew Murray (trade unionist), Andy Burnham, Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, Arthur Scargill, British Airways, British people, Canada Dock, Catholic Church, Christine Shawcroft, David Miliband, Decca Aitkenhead, Derek Hatton, Derek Simpson (trade unionist), Durham Miners' Gala, Ed Miliband, Eleven-plus, England, Entryism, Facebook, Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency), Financial Times, General Secretary of the Labour Party, George Eaton, George Eaton (journalist), Gordon Brown, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, HuffPost, Iain McNicol, Information Commissioner's Office, International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Jennie Formby, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Jon Craig, Jon Lansman, Jon Trickett, Jonathan Freedland, Ken Livingstone, Ken Loach, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015, Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016, Labour Representation Committee (2004), Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Echo, London, Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, ..., Merseyside, MI5, Militant (Trotskyist group), Momentum (organisation), National Executive Committee, National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain), New Statesman, Newsnight, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Port of Liverpool, Portland Communications, Press Association, Rachel Sylvester, Robocall, Seumas Milne, Sky News, Southwark, The Guardian, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Times, Tim Allan, Tom Watson (Labour politician), Tony Blair, Tony Mulhearn, Tony Woodley, Trade union, Trades Union Certification Officer, Transport and General Workers' Union, Unite the Union, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 2015, Wes Streeting, 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection. Expand index (35 more) »

Amicus

Amicus was the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union, and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance and the AEEU (Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union), agreed in 2001, and two smaller unions, UNIFI and the GPMU.

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Andrew Marr

Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British political commentator and television presenter.

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Andrew Murray (trade unionist)

Andrew Philip Drummond-Murray (born 3 July 1958), commonly known as Andrew Murray, is a British campaigner and journalist who was chair of the Stop the War Coalition from its formation in 2001 until June 2011, and again from September 2015 to 2016.

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Andy Burnham

Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British Labour politician who has been serving as the Mayor of Greater Manchester since May 2017.

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Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party

Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party has been the subject of public debate for decades.

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Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Canada Dock

Canada Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Christine Shawcroft

Christine Linda Shawcroft (born April 1955) is a British Labour Party activist and former politician.

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David Miliband

David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician, charity chief executive and public policy analyst who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields from 2001 to 2013.

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Decca Aitkenhead

Jessica Aitkenhead (born 1971), known as Decca Aitkenhead, is an English journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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Derek Hatton

Derek Hatton (born 17 January 1948 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is a British former politician, later a broadcaster, property developer, businessman and after-dinner speaker.

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Derek Simpson (trade unionist)

Derek Simpson (born 23 December 1944) is a British trade unionist who was the Joint-General Secretary of the UK's biggest private-sector trade union, Unite, from 2007 until 2010.

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Durham Miners' Gala

The Durham Miners' Gala is a large annual gathering held on the second Saturday in July in the city of Durham, England.

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Ed Miliband

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.

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Eleven-plus

The eleven-plus (11-plus) is an examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Entryism

Entryism (also referred to as entrism or enterism, or as infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organisation in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Falkirk is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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General Secretary of the Labour Party

The General Secretary of the Labour Party is the most senior employee of the British Labour Party, and acts as the non-voting secretary to the National Executive Committee.

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George Eaton

George Ross Eaton (born 12 November 1945) is a Canadian former racing driver who is a member of the prominent Eaton family.

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George Eaton (journalist)

George Eaton is a British writer and journalist.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Iain McNicol

Iain McNicol, Baron McNicol of West Kilbride (born 17 August 1969) is a British Labour politician and trade unionist.

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Information Commissioner's Office

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO; stylised as ico.) in the United Kingdom, is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to Parliament and is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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International Centre for Trade Union Rights

The International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) is "an organizing and campaigning body with the fundamental purpose of defending and improving the rights of trade unions and trade unionists throughout the world." ICTUR has accredited status with both the United Nations and the International Labour Organization.

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Jennie Formby

Jennie Formby (née Sandle, born 12 April 1960) is a British trade unionist and politician.

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949).

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John McDonnell

John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was appointed the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2015.

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Jon Craig

Jon Craig (born 9 August 1957) is the Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting.

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Jon Lansman

Jonathan Lansman (born 9 July 1957) is a British Labour Party activist, who worked on Jeremy Corbyn's successful 2015 campaign for the Labour party leadership, and subsequently founded the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum.

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Jon Trickett

Jon Hedley Trickett (born 2 July 1950) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire since a 1996 by-election.

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Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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Ken Loach

Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015

The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was won by Jeremy Corbyn with a landslide victory.

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Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016

The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his approach to the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and questions about his leadership of the party.

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Labour Representation Committee (2004)

The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is a British socialist pressure group within the Labour Party and wider labour movement.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Liverpool City Council

Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror based in Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mersey Docks and Harbour Company

The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC), formerly the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (MDHB), owns and administers the dock facilities of the Port of Liverpool, on the River Mersey, England.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million.

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MI5

The Security Service, also MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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Militant (Trotskyist group)

Militant, commonly called the Militant tendency, was a Trotskyist entryist group designed to infiltrate the British Labour Party.

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Momentum (organisation)

Momentum is a left-wing British political organisation.

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National Executive Committee

The National Executive Committee (NEC) is the governing body of the UK Labour Party, setting the overall strategic direction of the party and policy development.

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National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB).

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

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Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is an officer of the British House of Commons.

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Portland Communications

Portland Communications Ltd is a political consultancy and public relations agency set up in 2001 by Tim Allan, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Director of Communications at BSkyB.

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Press Association

The Press Association (PA) is a multimedia news agency operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Rachel Sylvester

Rachel Mynfreda Sylvester (born 1969) is a British political journalist who writes for The Times.

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Robocall

A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot.

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Seumas Milne

Seumas Milne (born 1958) is a British journalist and political aide.

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Sky News

Sky News is a 24-hour international multimedia news organisation based in the UK that started as a 24-hour television news channel.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tim Allan

Timothy Neil Allan is a public relations consultant and was an advisor to Tony Blair from 1992 to 1998.

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Tom Watson (Labour politician)

Thomas Anthony Watson (born 8 January 1967) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in September 2015.

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Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Tony Mulhearn

Anthony Mulhearn (born 24 January 1939)Paddy Shennan, "", Liverpool Echo, 23 January 2009.

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Tony Woodley

Anthony Woodley (born 2 January 1948) is a British trade unionist who was the Joint-General Secretary of Unite, a union formed through the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union, from 2007 to 2011.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trades Union Certification Officer

The Trades Union Certification Officer was established in the United Kingdom by Act of Parliament in 1975.

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Transport and General Workers' Union

The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate itself from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union - with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the world).

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Unite the Union

Unite the Union, commonly known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom general election, 2015

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.

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Wes Streeting

Wesley Paul William Streeting (born 21 January 1983) is the British Labour MP for Ilford North, elected in the 2015 General Election with 44% of the vote (21,463).

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2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection

In 2013, Eric Joyce, Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for Falkirk, resigned from the Labour Party and announced he would not seek re-election.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_McCluskey

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