TRAIN drivers’ union Aslef could be about to disaffiliate from the Labour Party, with members set to vote on the potentially seismic move yesterday.

About 80 delegates gathered in Bournemouth for the opening day of the union’s annual conference will debate a motion on whether to sever Aslef’s ties with the party, which go back more than a century.

If backed by delegates, the proposition would see the union become the second in a year to ditch Labour after bakers’ union BFAWU voted to disaffiliate in September 2021, citing a “factional internal war” waged by party leader Sir Keir Starmer.