Momentum-backed NEC member: Labour should cut union links

Senior NEC member, Christine Shawcroft, said it was ‘time to support disaffiliation of the unions from the Labour party.’ She later deleted her Facebook post.Union leaders reacted with fury on Wednesday after a senior member of Labour’s ruling national executive committee called for the party’s link to trades unions to be severed.Christine Shawcroft, who became the new chair of Labour’s powerful disputes panel in January, made a series of comments on Facebook &ndash