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Starmer won’t be happy? Another Labour frontbencher pictured visiting picket line

The Labour leader has said he supports people’s right to strike, but is seeking to contain a row with unions and the left wing of his party over his decision to sack Sam Tarry from the front bench after he gave broadcast interviews from a picket line.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-08-01 13:48
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Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy has visited striking workers on a picket line, despite party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s comments that Labour must move from being a “party of protest”.

A photograph tweeted by North West regional secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Carl Webb, appeared to show the shadow levelling up secretary Ms Nandy meeting striking workers at Wigan picket line. Ms Nandy is MP for Wigan.

The image was accompanied by the caption: “Thanks @lisanandy
for taking the time to visit the @cwugmersey Wigan picket line this moring (sic) to speak to #TheCWU BT & Openreach members on strike and show solidarity”.

Thanks @lisanandy for taking the time to visit the @cwugmersey Wigan picket line this moring to speak to #TheCWU BT & Openreach members on strike and show solidarity @CWUnews @DaveWardGS @CWU_AndyKerr pic.twitter.com/SjJXqczD6R

— Carl Webb – #joinaunion (@NWCWU) August 1, 2022
BT and Openreach workers industrial action
Labour MP Sam Tarry joined Communication Workers Union members on the picket line in London on Friday (Maighna Nanu/PA)

Ms Nandy’s visit comes in apparent defiance of Sir Keir Starmer saying Labour must move from being a “party of protest” to one that can win an election, in order to help working people.

Row with unions

The Labour leader has said he supports people’s right to strike, but is seeking to contain a row with unions and the left wing of his party over his decision to sack Sam Tarry from the front bench after he gave broadcast interviews from a picket line.

Sir Keir, who previously banned frontbenchers from joining strikers on picket lines, said he fired Mr Tarry as a shadow transport minister after he booked himself on to media programmes without permission and made up policy “on the hoof” in defiance of the party’s “collective responsibility”.

But the move was met with fury by Labour’s left wing and trade unions, with Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite,  earlier saying she was “aghast” at Sir Keir’s approach to striking workers.

Mr Tarry, MP for Ilford South tweeted: “Great to see @lisanandy
on the picket line. Senior Labour politicians need to demonstrate loud and clear that our Party is on the side of ordinary working people who are fighting back against this anti-worker Government.”

The PA news agency has contacted the Labour Party and Ms Nandy’s office for comment.

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