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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy Editor

Labour party is ‘sticking two fingers up’ at working people, says Unite boss

Sam Tarry MP (second left) on an Aslef picket line on Saturday.
Sam Tarry MP (second left) shows solidarity on an Aslef picket line on Saturday. Photograph: Elliott Franks

Labour is becoming “irrelevant to workers” and it is now hard to justify handing the party millions in funding, the head of the party’s biggest union donor has warned.

In an interview with the Observer, Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, said she felt Labour’s leadership was, in effect, “sticking two fingers up” at workers with its response to strike action and its abandonment of pledges to renationalise public utilities.

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