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General Secretary of the RMT Mick Lynch gives speech during a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, against the government's controversial legislation on minimum levels of service during strikes, May 22, 2023
RAIL workers’ union general secretary Mick Lynch told Labour’s leaders yesterday that many voters cannot “spot the difference” between Labour and the Tories.
The RMT leader called on Sir Keir Starmer and his team “to show some clear water between themselves and The Daily Mail and the Telegraph – and themselves and the Conservatives.”
His comments came in an interview for Sky’s Sophie Ridge on Sunday programme, as Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said that she is “not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty.”
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course