Keir Starmer risks another clash by ordering Labor frontbenchers not to join picket lines
Keir Starmer has provoked a new clash with his own senior MPs by again ordering them to stay away from the picket lines set up by the strikers.
Several shadow ministers have defied the Labor leader by joining protests during the last month-long rail dispute - after which he backed away from threatening to discipline them.
But Sir Keir returned to the controversy, ahead of news railway strikes and the dispute with Royal Mail, stating: "Labour in opposition must be Labor in power.
Keir Starmer has provoked a new clash with his own senior MPs by again ordering them to stay away from the picket lines set up by the strikers.
Several shadow ministers have defied the Labor leader by joining protests during the last month-long rail dispute - after which he backed away from threatening to discipline them.
But Sir Keir returned to the controversy, ahead of news railway strikes and the dispute with Royal Mail, stating: "Labour in opposition must be Labor in power.
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