A LABOUR government will try to privatise further than the Tories — inadvertently paving the way for a left resurgence, a senior trade unionist has said.

GMB organiser Helen O’Connor made the predictions speaking in a personal capacity at a Red University event in Cambridge on Saturday.

She said: “It’s looking likely Keir Starmer will get elected supported by the Establishment, because the war against the left in Labour has been proven to be relied on, delivering their interests and not in the interests of working-class people.

“Our movement must organise politically and industrially, because there’s no doubt that Starmer will not just continue the cuts and privatisation — he will ramp them up.”

Warning that many Labour frontbenchers have ties with companies which are looking to privatise the NHS, she predicted a Starmer government would try “to do what it did under Blair, and they will try to get away with things even the Tories wouldn’t dream of attempting.

“But this will not be a rerun of New Labour, working-class people want rid of the Tories but they have no trust of Labour either,” she added.

“Starmer’s government will demonstrate the failure of all political parties and set the conditions for people to embrace a socialist alternative but that will not just happen — this is what we as communists and socialists have to fight for.”

Ms O’Connor, who worked as a NHS nurse for 28 years, urged unions to adopt a unified no-ifs no-buts opposition to privatisation.

She said an “historic lack of fightback” within the movement following the defeat of the miners’ strike has led to “cuts and privatisation and the corruption of those with it have become deeply embedded as a strategy across public services.”