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Picture of Starmer campaigning for £15-an-hour wage hike goes viral following McDonald resignation

Andy McDonald quit the shadow cabinet after he was instructed to argue against a national minimum wage of £15 per hour, he claims.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2021-09-28 07:44
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A picture of Sir Keir Starmer campaigning next to McDonald’s workers for fairer wages has gone viral after Andy McDonald sensationally quit as shadow employment rights secretary.

The former shadow Brexit secretary said he was “proud to stand in solidarity” with the workers for “standing up to corporate injustice, low pay and the exploitation of workers” in November, 2019.

But he has appeared to change his tune as Labour leader, much to the irk of his shadow cabinet member.

Proud to stand in solidarity with McDonald’s workers in Wandsworth.

They are standing up to corporate injustice, low pay and the exploitation of workers.

Please support them. #McStrike pic.twitter.com/U9CeSQeFvC

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) November 12, 2019

Disarray

The Labour Party was thrown into disarray last night after the dramatic resignation of McDonald.

He suggested the leader was not honouring “our commitment to socialist policies” as he quit and accused Sir Keir of abandoning the pledges of his leadership campaign.

McDonald said Starmer’s office had instructing him to argue against a national minimum wage of £15 per hour and against statutory sick pay at the living wage.

“This is something I could not do,” he wrote in his resignation letter.

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Jeremy Corbyn

The left-winger is scheduled to appear at a discussion at the fringes of the conference in Brighton on Tuesday with former leader, and ally, Jeremy Corbyn.

The row threatens to overshadow the message the wider shadow cabinet wishes to present, with shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth announcing that a Labour government would double dementia spending.

He will also accuse the Government under the Tories of creating a two-tier health system that is threatening a universal NHS.

Labour also wants to present itself as being tough on crime and its causes when shadow health secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds presents a plan to “bring back neighbourhood policing”.

“Winning the next general election”

Sir Keir has thanked Mr McDonald for his work and said his focus is on “winning the next general election” as he sought to move on from the resignation of a member of his top team.

But the leader is expected to come under further questioning over the row, with the Tories seeking to present it as Labour being “divided and fighting among themselves”.

In his resignation letter, Mr McDonald wrote: “I joined your frontbench team on the basis of the pledges that you made in the leadership campaign to bring about unity within the party and maintain our commitment to socialist policies.

“After 18 months of your leadership, our movement is more divided than ever and the pledges that you made to the membership are not being honoured. This is just the latest of many.”

Labour sources suggested there was no sense of loss in Sir Keir’s office over the resignation.

At #Lab21 Labour are divided and fighting among themselves. Now they are even resigning during their own party conference!

Labour’s conference gets more chaotic by the minute. How can people trust them to run the country? https://t.co/sPjqgcg8k0

— Oliver Dowden (@OliverDowden) September 27, 2021

GMB motion

Another test for Sir Keir could come from a GMB union-backed motion at the conference demanding that all care workers are paid at least £15 per hour.

Labour’s current policy is that every worker should have a minimum wage of at least £10 per hour, and the party has called for an increase for statutory sick pay but not stated to what level.

Ahead of Mr McDonald’s resignation, Sir Keir’s conference had been boosted by the announcement that Dame Louise Ellman, a former MP who quit the party over the anti-Semitism under Mr Corbyn’s leadership, had rejoined the party.

She said she was able to return to her “political home” now that it is “led by a man of principle in whom the British people and Britain’s Jews can have trust”.

Related: ‘They knew’: Select Committee report shows Govt was warned about driver shortage in 2016

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