article_snippet: A woman at the centre of a vote-rigging row is being parachuted into a key marginal seat by Labour’s biggest union donor.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband has been warned that Ed Miliband party risks losing the seat if Miss Murphy is selected, but the union could stop bankrolling the party’s election campaign if Miss Murphy is not chosen.
article_snippet: Mrs Riordan, also a Unite member, has taken Miss Murphy on a tour of the seat to introduce Miss Murphy to local members.
article_snippet: The pair have also been pictured campaigning with Labour councillors.
article_snippet: Unite is also organising a campaign day in the seat on Sunday, two days before the candidates on the all-women shortlist are revealed.
article_snippet: It is hoping to flood the constituency with members from all over Yorkshire and Humber in what is seen as a ‘peacock exercise’ to show off the resources It could deploy if Miss Murphy is chosen.
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article_snippet: A spokesman for the union dismissed suggestions that Len McCluskey had threatened to halt funding Labour’s General Election campaign if Len McCluskey is not chosen as ‘complete and utter rubbish’.
article_snippet: The announcement came hours after Mrs Riordan claimed the local party had been ‘dragging the local party feet’ over the selection since Mrs Riordan made Mrs Riordan decision more than a month ago that Mrs Riordan would step down on health grounds.
article_snippet: In a letter to the party’s general secretary Iain McNicol, which was leaked to the local paper, Mrs Riordan claimed that there were suspicions the selection was being delayed so the local party could impose the local party own candidate.
article_snippet: The seat, where Mrs Riordan has a majority of 1,472, is number 18 on the Tories’ target list.
article_snippet: Nearly 130 candidates standing for the local party in May have links to the union.
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