Keir needs unions... now more than ever

TRADES unions want better job rights, higher wages, turbo-boosted public services, the scrapping of the Tory poverty-creating two-child benefit cap and a wealth tax imposed.

- KEVIN MAGUIRE

So Keir Starmer should be popping down to Brighton for this week’s TUC annual Congress to pick up a few bold ideas to revitalise his struggling Labour government instead of staying away.

Because lurching to the right and shuffling the Cabinet deckchairs after union darling Angela Rayner left home isnt the answer to a haemorrhaging of hope, trust and electoral support.

Starmer fatally dilutes promised modern rights at work, laws that would stop folk being exploited and mistreated as disposable cheap labour. By doing so, Starmer would sign the government's death warrant.