Labour’s union bankroller demands life-long Trot and remoaner Daniel Carden stands for election in one of the party’s safe seats
Sources claim unions are bidding to parachute in their left-wing candidates to replace the dozen Labour MPs quitting Parliament
JEREMY Corbyn’s union backers are preparing to parachute a life-long Trot into a safe Labour seat in the Election.
Top of Unite’s candidates list is Daniel Carden for June 8, a top aide to firebrand leader Red Len McCluskey.
Mr Carden – who has worked in politics and trade unions for all his career – shared a social media post describing Brexit as the “stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake”.
He is an anti-monarchist who denied Labour has a problem with anti-Semitism and backed up Ken Livingston.
An insider described him as “a total momentum Trot”. But he is likely to be elected as an MP in June because he will stand in one of the safest Labour seats up for grabs.
Labour sources said three of Labour’s biggest union backers – Unite, GMB and Unison – are demanding two safe seats each at the election in return for campaign funds.
Critics slammed it as hard-left “stitch-up”.
The unions are bidding to parachute in their left-wing candidates to replace the dozen Labour MPs who are quitting Parliament.
Mr Carden is said to be eyeing up three safe Labour seats up for grabs.
They are Leigh – where Andy Burnham is standing down as part of his bid to win the Greater Manchester Mayoral election – Liverpool Walton, where Labour’s Liverpool Metro candidate Steve Rotherham is set to vacate and West Hull and Hessle, where outgoing ex-Labour home secretary Alan Johnson is standing down.
A Unite spokesperson insisted Mr Carden was not top of their candidate list and denied it was leveraging its campaign fund to win candidate selections.