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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent

Keir Starmer under pressure over strike stance as Labour MP joins picket line

Sam Tarry, Mick Lynch and others on an RMT picket line
Sam Tarry, second right, on the picket line at Euston station yesterday with the RMT leader, Mick Lynch, left. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Rex/Shutterstock

Keir Starmer is under pressure over his stance on Labour MPs joining picket lines after a shadow minister defied orders not to join the striking workers, saying he was “on the side of the members not the establishment”.

The Labour leader is now facing a dilemma over whether to sack the shadow transport minister Sam Tarry, who joined rail workers outside Euston station in London.

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