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Unions urge Starmer not to deliver more austerity as TUC Congress heckler tells PM to ‘tax the rich’
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at the TUC congress at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, East Sussex, September 10, 2024

UNIONS urged Sir Keir Starmer not to deliver more austerity after he told TUC Congress to expect pay and public investment restraint.

National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said the Prime Minister failed to announce a change of course after “decades of division, austerity and underinvestment in public services.

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