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RMT leader Mick Cash: ‘Backbiting’ Labour MPs need to put a sock in it
by Conrad Landin in Eastbourne

“BACKBITING” Labour MPs must put a sock in it, the leader of a non-Labour affiliated union has said.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash, speaking at fellow transport union TSSA’s conference on Sunday, suggested it was “no coincidence” that allegations of anti-semitism had emerged in the weeks before the local elections.

“We supported Jeremy Corbyn before it was fashionable,” he told the conference.

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