article_snippet.sent: As the revelations emerged, party chiefs engineered a letter, signed by 100 workers and employers from ‘all walks of life’, that was also designed as a riposte to a letter signed by dozens of business leaders who backed the Tories this week.
article_snippet.sent: A Labour spokesman said last night: ‘More than 6,000 people have now signed our letter from all walks of life across the country.
article_snippet.sent: Last night, HARRODS SHOPPER was revealed that trade union officials had hurriedly tried to persuade supporters to sign the pro-Labour letter just hours after the critical letter from business leaders had been published.
article_snippet.sent: Another signatory, Rema Boumerdassi, was found to be a member of the shop workers the GMB union.
article_snippet.sent: the critical letter from business leaders claimed to be from people from ‘all walks of life’ but among the signatories were Labour councillors and a former MP.
article_snippet.sent: Billy Boyle, the scientist husband of Kate Gross, a former No10 aide who ran Tony Blair’s Africa charity and died on Christmas Day aged 36, was also a signatory of the critical letter from business leaders.
highlights_snippet.sent: 100 workers and employers from ‘all walks of life’ signed letter backing Ed .
  