TUC general secretary Paul Nowak urged government to show working people ‘whose side you are on’
Union chiefs have warned that Labour must do more to tackle the threat of the populist right amid concerns the party is losing support among working people to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the TUC, 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 Farage and was not doing enough to make a vocal case for Labour values on the economy and migration.
A third said that with the departure of Angela Rayner from the top of government, Labour had lost one of its most effective “attack dogs” against Reform. Unless the party “upped its game”, it would lose the next election, they said.
