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Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer (right) leads tributes to Queen Elizabeth II as the national anthem is sung during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer must start representing the working class or “step aside” as Labour leader, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said ahead of the party’s annual conference.
The rail union leader warned that working people are facing the “most militant right-wing government” in their lifetimes, as he addressed a rally hosted by former shadow chancellor John McDonnell in Liverpool on Saturday night.
“I just wish that the people that are meant to be representing us were as bold and radical as [the Tories] have shown in the last two or three days,” he said.
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‘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
