Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer has been surprised by the strength of criticism from within the Labour Party for allowing a right-wing Tory to join the Labour ranks.

Some of them still remember the moral crusade that Labour used to be.

She condemned firemen for going on strike. Unions reminded Starmer that that contradicts a Labour Party commitment to restore the right to strike

If the government considers some public employees so essential that they must not go on strike, the right way to avoid that is by paying the workers better without waiting for a strike. Rather than singling them out, it could pay all working people better.