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Starmer drama: This time it’s personal
The Labour leader’s glowing tribute to a management-organised protest by match workers at Bryant & May shows his ignorance of labour movement history, writes historian of the matchwomen LOUISE RAW
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (left) and (right) the matchwomen
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IT’S A surreal experience watching the leader of the opposition put a match to the research to which you’ve dedicated a lot of your adult life — and use your own phrases to do it.
That’s what happened a few days ago when Keir Starmer and some Labour MPs put out a tweet celebrating the 150th anniversary of an 1871 protest against a proposed match tax, calling it a collective victory by workers which had “galvanised” other factory workers.
It’s hard to overstate how wrong he has got this; levels of error which raise questions not just about his team and their due diligence processes, but Starmer’s understanding of the events which created his own party.
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