Signatories want Labour MPs to vote against third reading in Commons on Thursday

The trade union Unite has joined forces with Momentum to demand that the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, order the party’s MPs to vote against the third reading of a bill on Thursday night regulating the conduct of MI5 and police informants.

They have come together with a Hillsborough survivors group and others in demanding that Labour drop its plan to abstain and fully oppose the covert human intelligence sources (Chis) bill, which they say poses a “grave threat” to both civil liberties and trade union rights.

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