article_snippet: Labour last night became embroiled in a major row with Labour biggest union donor after the woman at the centre of a vote-rigging scandal was blocked from standing in a key marginal seat.
article_snippet: Unite was accused of recruiting members to ‘pack’ the local party before the selection vote.
article_snippet: The dispute risks reopening the wounds of the bitter Falkirk row.
article_snippet: Following the decision, a Unite source warned that the party’s deputy leader Harriet Harman the party’s deputy leader Harriet Harman will ‘have to answer for the party’s deputy leader Harriet Harman actions in due course’.
article_snippet: Mrs Riordan, a Unite member, yesterday accused the party of ‘underhand and anti-democratic manipulation’ of the selection.
article_snippet: Mrs Riordan, a member of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament, has a majority of only 1,472 in Halifax, which is number 18 on the Tories’ target list.
article_snippet: A the local party spokesman said: