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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Political correspondent

Reports on Unite’s Birmingham hotel find ‘potential criminality’

Unite hotel and conference centre in Birmingham
The plan to build the hotel and conference centre was forecast to cost about £35m in 2015 and is now expected to run to £98m. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Unite has shared two independent reports on the construction of a near-£100m hotel and conference centre in Birmingham with police after they uncovered what the union said were “very serious concerns about potential criminality”.

The trade union’s plan to build the 170-room complex – which began under the leadership of former general secretary Len McCluskey – was forecast in 2015 to cost about £35m, but is now expected to run to £98m.

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