In today’s Observer, Michael Savage has a report on frustration within the trade union movement over Labour’s handling not only of strikes but also of the issue of pay. The real terms pay of millions of people is being cut as wages fall short of inflation. On the pay policy of the Opposition, Unite General Secretary asks, “is Labour now saying that people should have a national wage cut? If you’re not keeping up with inflation, you are having a cut in pay.”
The Observer also reports my comments on Labour’s direction:
Simon Fletcher, a former adviser to the Labour leader, warned that the rows had revealed the “limitations of Labour’s project as it stands” and that too much focus was on simply differentiating Starmer from Jeremy Corbyn. Writing on the Observer’s website this weekend, he states: “The Labour leadership’s problem is that it gives every impression of being more obsessed with differentiating itself from the previous leader than with the millions of people getting hit through their pay and their energy bills.”
You can read the Observer’s report here and my full article here.