Ed Miliband urged to act over new 'phantom' members in Falkirk scandal In July, Mr Miliband triggered a major rift with the union after referring the claims to the police and accusing the union of "bad practice." However, he closed the party's investigation in September after claims that one of the family's at the heart of the allegations had changed their story. The family has since denied withdrawing its evidence. Police are now examining a new cache of emails which suggests that Unite and its officials were instrumental in thwarting the Labour Party's investigation into the union's influence at Falkirk. Senior Labour figures including Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor, and Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, have since called for the party's investigation to be re-opened. Mr Joyce said that the phantom members he has identified suggest that the problems in the constituency are far more widespread than just a few families. He said that Labour rules stipulate that people must live at the address where they are register. However, after comparing the membership list with the electoral roll he has identified 15 members who do not live at the addresses. He said: "This is a clear breach of the rules, there are probably dozens more who do not live at their registered address. The local party is very angry with Ed Miliband for closing his investigation. This clearly goes further, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. A Labour Party spokesman said: "We have taken swift and thorough measures throughout this to uphold the integrity of the Labour Party. We have put the constituency into special measures, we have frozen the local membership which means no member who has joined since Eric Joyce resigned can take part in the selection of a new candidate. This range of measures shows we have acted swiftly and thoroughly throughout this matter to uphold the integrity of the Labour Party. Unite has denied that its officials had any inappropriate contact with witnesses. A spokesman said:"Unite was the subject of entirely unjustified attacks in relation to the Labour parliamentary selection in Falkirk. Both the Labour party and Police Scotland investigated the issue and found that neither the law nor the party's rules were broken by the union. Unite's own quite proper investigations into what had occurred in Falkirk, which we were enjoined to undertake, were all conducted through the medium of external solicitors. New electoral commission figures, published earlier this week, show that Unite was the biggest donor to a political party in the last quarter to between from June to September The controversial Unite trade union donated over £700,000 to the Labour party at the height of the Falkirk vote rigging scandal.