Union Chiefs PM Urged to 'Up Game' Against Populist Right

Union chiefs have warned Labour must do more to tackle the threat of the populist right amid concerns the party is losing support among working people to Reform UK.

- Pippa Crerar, Richard Partington

Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, urged the government to show working people "whose side you are on", saying too many felt that Labour's promise of change was just a slogan.

A second union chief told the Guardian that Keir Starmer had been "too scared, too reticent" to take the fight to Reform's leader, Nigel Farage, and was not doing enough to make a vocal case for Labour values on the economy and migration.