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May’s ‘spectacular’ poll gamble backfire
STUC slams ‘arrogant and weak’ British PM
THERESA MAY’S election gamble “spectacularly backfired,” Scottish trade unionists said yesterday as they added to the chorus demanding she quits.
Scottish TUC general secretary Grahame Smith accused the bungling Prime Minister of being “arrogant and weak” and said the Tories’ austerity agenda, dismantling of public services and attacks on unions and workers’ rights had been “soundly rejected.”
He charged: “Her credibility is shot and she should go now.”
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