BUSINESS Secretary Kemi Badenoch is demanding that a leading trade union ends its ties with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
In a letter to Unite’s chief Sharon Graham, Ms Badenoch says she is “appalled” the trade union can endorse the organisation’s actions.
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The PSC is featured on the union’s website.
Ms Badenoch said: “I am at a loss as to how Unite can associate itself with a group that espouses views that encourage the anti-Semitism and violence we are witnessing.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to suspend MP Apsana Begum from his party after she posed with the group last weekend.
The PSC is one of the union’s affiliated campaign groups and the union attended their conference last November.
Unite has 1.2 million members across sectors such as manufacturing, construction and transport.
Unite have given Labour’s central party, constituencies and Scottish Labour nearly £5 million since Sir Keir Starmer came to lead the Labour party in April 2020.
One ex-Minister is even calling for Labour to review its funding from Unite under the current circumstances.
Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith last night said: “The violence in Israel is horrific and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
“And that includes Labour holding their union paymasters to account over their funding of extremist campaign groups.
“The Labour Party should immediately review union links to these organisations.”
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