The rail workers I stood with on the picket line told me harrowing accounts of how they and many of their colleagues are routinely forced to collect donation parcels from food banks at the end of shifts. I was proud to stand with them – it would have been an abject dereliction of duty for me as a Labour MP to refuse to join workers in their struggle for a fair wage.
As a Labour party shadow transport minister, a position I held until just a few days ago, I was duty-bound to speak out against horrific Tory attacks on working people.
