Britain's 対立 労働 Party considers cutting staff to save costs - source

By Kanishka Singh

July 19 (Reuters) - Britain's 対立 労働 Party is discussing cutting its staff in a 企て,努力,提案 to save costs, a source familiar with the 事柄 told Reuters on Monday.

The party's 判決,裁定 国家の (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 委員会 is to discuss 計画(する)s for large-規模 redundancies の中で staff, with at least 90 職業s at 危険, The 後見人 newspaper 報告(する)/憶測d earlier.

"This is not an 平易な 決定/判定勝ち(する) and we recognise it will be a very difficult time for staff," the source, who was a party insider, told Reuters, asking not to be identified.

The source, who did not 確認する the exact number of 職業s 存在 削減(する), also said the party will engage with the 関心d staff and 貿易(する) unions, 追加するing that the step was taken with a 見解(をとる) に向かって reshaping the party's 操作/手術s ahead of the next 総選挙.

労働's most 最近の 年次の 報告(する)/憶測 showed the party 雇うd 367 staff as at December 31 2019, just after that year's 総選挙, によれば The 後見人.

The party's big 寄贈者, the 部隊 貿易(する) union, attacked the 計画(する)s on Monday.

"While working-class communities are continuing to 耐える the brunt of the sickness and 雇用 worries made much worse by 保守的な mishandling of the pandemic, 労働 is abandoning the field of 戦う/戦い against this 政府 to turn its 解雇する/砲火/射撃 on its members instead," 部隊 said after the 計画(する)s were first 報告(する)/憶測d.

After a 13-year stint in office under former 首相s Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, 労働 has lost four 連続した 総選挙s since 2010.

British 労働 leader Keir Starmer has often struggled to connect with 投票者s since becoming leader last year, いつかs unable to challenge a 政府 that won some support for a successful COVID-19 ワクチン接種 programme.

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Pullin)

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