Union leaders urge Keir Starmer to 'choose sides' during summer of strikes

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Union leaders lambasted Keir Starmer's approach to striking workers, told him to 'pick a side'

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Keir Starmer explains why Sam Tarry was fired

The leader of one of the UK's biggest trade unions was 'appalled' by Keir Starmer's approach to striking workers and urged him to 'choose sides'.

Unite boss Sharon Graham has explained that Labor is becoming “irrelevant” to the people it represents and sometimes looks more like the Tories.

She spoke in response to the sacking of shadow transport minister Sam Tarry, who joined the picket lines last week.

Mr. Starmer has insisted he has no choice but to sack the MP for Ilford South after he booked TV appearances and allegedly invented party politics 'on the hoof'.

But the General Secretary of Unite said: "If I spoke to Keir now, I would say to him, 'Which side are you on?'

Sharon Graham said Labor was becoming "irrelevant" (

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Tim Merry)

"Because the reality is that if I closed my eyes sometimes I wouldn't know if it was Labor or the Tories talking.

“This is one of the biggest crises facing working people. We are trying to defend them with every fiber of our being and the party that is supposed to echo this in Parliament is doing exactly the same. opposite.