It’s day one of Labour conference and already there’s demands for Sir Keir Starmer to quit. With his party well ahead in the polls, you might have thought that would buy the Labour leader some respite. Not a bit of it, for over at The World Transformed festival – the breakaway Corbynite tribute act – Mick Lynch, the boss of the RMT union last night took aim at Starmer’s moderate leadership with the oratorical equivalent of a double-barreled shotgun.
In a fiery 13-minute speech, the ‘people’s Mick’ told his audience at “The Working Class Strike Back” rally:
The working class is back. We need to be in the community with the people who are struggling. We have to tell the Labour party to put your shoulder to our wheel. If you do that, we’ll support you. If you can’t, Keir Starmer needs to get out of the way and let in somebody else who can.
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