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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to UCL at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
THE leader of Britain’s biggest private-sector union has urged Sir Keir Starmer to confirm that a future Labour government would not embark on “another round of austerity.”
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said she wants guarantees from Labour that the party is not preparing to make “continued cuts to services and pay.”
Labour leader Sir Keir gave a speech in east London on Thursday in which he vowed to end “sticking-plaster politics” and said no “big government chequebook” would be required to fund his plans as prime minister.
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
