A party statement says "a real tsunami" of massive vote fraud "reached an industrial scale."

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However, the statement said that "given the current scale of organisational change, Dr Flanagan feels that the appropriate time to take this step is now".

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In a statement, Rio Tinto chairman Jan du Plessis said the scale of the write-down was "unacceptable".

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"We have received some queries regarding pay but not on the scale claimed by the GMB, " it said in a statement.

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