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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Meg Hill

Unions express anger over sacking of Labour frontbencher Sam Tarry

Sir Keir Starmer will visit Birmingham on Thursday amid a Labour Party row after a frontbencher was fired following media appearances at an RMT picket line on Wednesday.

The party sacked shadow transport minister Sam Tarry after he defied Sir Keir’s ban on frontbenchers joining the pickets in support of striking rail workers.

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