Keir Starmer has sacked a Labour frontbencher for appearing on a rail picket line. Shadow buses minister Sam Tarry defied the party leader’s orders and stood alongside striking rail workers at London Euston station on Wednesday morning.
Around 40,000 members of the RMT union staged a walkout on Wednesday in a dispute over proposed changes to working conditions, pay and job losses bringing the rail network to a halt. Another strike is expected to go ahead on Saturday.
Starmer has tried to distance the Labour party from the strike action in order to convince voters that the party is ready to govern and told frontbenchers to stay away from the picket lines.
