Labour's crackdown on internal dissent means unions must step up as real opposition, NEU leader tells socialist fringe meeting
Daniel Kebede speaking at the Socialist Campaign rally
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
TRADE unions must become the most effective opposition if Labour keeps attacking the poorest, National Education Union leader Daniel Kebede said on Tuesday night.
Addressing a standing-room-only Socialist Campaign Group-Labour Assembly Against Austerity fringe meeting, Mr Kebede said Labour needed to reverse its decision to means-test the winter fuel allowance and roll out free school meals for all.
Lifting the two-child benefit cap was a “no-brainer” that would lift 300,000 children out of poverty at a stroke, he said. “What sort of government continues that [cap]? It’s absolutely abhorrent.”
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