A new Conservative attack advert appeared on Friday, showing Keir Starmer with his head bowed next to a triumphant-looking Mick Lynch, leader of the RMT rail strikes, and Angela Rayner’s smiling face in between them.
It showed the party once again reaching for its old union-bashing comfort blanket that worked for Margaret Thatcher, and to an extent, for some subsequent leaders such as David Cameron against Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson versus Jeremy Corbyn.
