During the 2022-3 strike wave in the UK, Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) regularly took to the stage of rallies asking the whereabouts of Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour opposition. Framed as calling out the refusal of Labour to …
Read More »Editorial: Jon Cruddas’s plain speaking should prompt a challenge to Starmer’s war on democracy
LABOUR MP Jon Cruddas’s attack on the “witch-hunt” by the “right-wing, illiberal faction” around Keir Starmer is sharper and clearer than previous MPs’ protests at the leader’s conduct. Cruddas speaks out in defence of Neal Lawson, head of the pressure group Compass, who shared his threatened expulsion with the Guardian …
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