Frances O’Grady to stand down as TUC leader at end of year

Frances O'Grady speaking at the TUC Congress in London in 2020. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Frances O’Grady will stand down as general secretary of the Trades Union Congress at the end of the year.

The first woman to hold the post in the TUC’s 154-year-old history, she said it had been the greatest honour of her life to serve the trade union movement during a turbulent decade for workers.