Shadow levelling up secretary visits CWU members, days after sacking of Sam Tarry for interviews on picket line
Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling up secretary, visited striking communications workers on Monday, days after Keir Starmer sacked his shadow transport minister for comments made on a rail picket line.
Starmer has previously told shadow frontbenchers they should not join picket lines for strikes, arguing that Labour should be a party of government. Nandy is understood to have told the leader’s office in advance that she planned to visit Communication Workers Union (CWU) workers from BT and Openreach striking in her Wigan constituency.
