Sentence examples for fund labour from inspiring English sources
It suggests the unions are going to lose their obligation to fund Labour, but not their sway over it.
Asked whether he would fund Labour when Brown toyed with an election in 2007, Paul said: "If there is an election and the money is wanted, whatever I can pay I will pay".
It has been used to fund Labour's "New Deal" for the young unemployed.
The Unite union, which announced earlier this week that it would help fund Labour's general election campaign, approved a motion at its conference in Liverpool calling for a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
The RMT rail union and the Fire Brigades Union both ended their affiliation during the Blair years, although they continued to fund Labour election candidates.
Few union members know their rights, says BBC political editor Nick Robinson, so "the result is that many Tory, Lib Dem, Green or nationalist-supporting trade unionists unwittingly fund Labour and give their general secretary significant power in the party in the process".
Concerns were also raised over the Government's Trade Union Bill, which is likely to limit the amount of funding Labour receives from its union backers.
She used her address to defend the role unions have played in funding Labour since its inception, now under attack from the government's Lobbying bill.
Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite union which funds Labour, has suggested the party's defeat was more for presentational than political reasons.
Ironically, the trade unions who are funding Labour's "I love the NHS Campaign" like to negotiate private health cover for their members.
Defending itself against accusations of being over-reliant on union funding, Labour said its total income was more like £8m, as it gets almost £3m from membership, £1.6m from grants and £1m from fundraising and commercial activity.
