Labour election chief pays interns just £4 a DAY: Party tries to claim staff were volunteers after earlier pledging to champion the low paid

‘Labour has been accused of ‘utter hypocrisy’ after it was revealed interns working for one of their election chiefs are paid just £4 per day while the party claims to champion the low paid.

An email sent by Toby Perkins, who is deputy chairman of the Labour election campaign as well as MP for Chesterfield, revealed that interns are paid just £25 per week for working 12-hour days.

Now Labour is trying to get around the problem by saying the interns will be paid nothing at all, making them volunteers rather than workers.’

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