article_snippet: Senior figures in Unite threatened to retaliate only weeks before the general election after Karie Murphy, a close friend of the union’s leader, Len McCluskey, was excluded from a list of candidates in Halifax.
article_snippet: Karie Murphy Karie Murphy was suspended by Labour in 2013 and reported to police after allegations that the general election after Karie Murphy, a close friend of the union’s leader, Len McCluskey, was excluded from a list of candidates in Halifax had tried to manipulate the selection process in Falkirk in Karie Murphy favour.
article_snippet: Karie Murphy, a close friend of Unite union leader Len McCluskey, who was excluded from a list of Labour candidates for the key marginal seat of Halifax .
article_snippet: Karie Murphy was later cleared and had Karie Murphy membership reinstated, but Karie Murphy quit as Labour candidate in the Scottish seat for the sake of ‘reconciliation and unity’.
article_snippet: Unite had hoped to use Unite power within the local party to parachute Karie Murphy Karie Murphy in as the candidate in Halifax, where the current Labour MP, Linda Riordan, has announced that Karie Murphy is stepping down.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband had been warned that Ed Miliband risked losing the Scottish seat if Karie Murphy Karie Murphy was selected, but the union could now stop bankrolling the party’s election campaign.
article_snippet: It is understood figures in the local party had been frantically working behind the scenes to try to stop Karie MurphyKarie Murphy.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband had been warned that Ed Miliband risked losing the seat if Karie Murphy Karie Murphy was selected, but the union could now stop bankrolling the party’s election campaign .
highlights_snippet: Karie Murphy has been blocked from standing for Labour in seat of Halifax .
  
highlights_snippet: Karie Murphy Karie Murphy is a close friend of Unite union leader Len McCluskey .
  
highlights_snippet: Karie Murphy was suspended by Labour in 2013 over vote rigging allegations .
  
highlights_snippet: Was later cleared and had Karie Murphy membership re-instated and hoped to stand .
  