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Article: Labour admits sleaze inquiry faces collapse

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March 11, 1998
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LABOUR'S campaign to root out sleaze was thrown into confusion last night, after the official in charge of discipline admitted that the procedures created to allow the party to act against offenders may not stand up to legal scrutiny in Scotland.

The party has been forced to concede that three more suspended Glasgow councillors -the former group leader Bob Gould, Gordon Macdiarmid and James Mutter - should be readmitted.

In a letter to a solicitor acting for Mr Mutter, Labour's national constitutional officer, Mike Penn, states that Scottish court proceedings "call into question the basis of the NCC's {national constitutional committee's} established practice". The letter, obtained by The ...

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