Saturday 6 August 2022 01:52 AM Keir Starmer tells strikers 'I'll stand with you' in unearthed video, before ... trends now
Sir Keir Starmer has tried to show that Labour is a party of government by clamping down on dissenting shadow ministers who join picket lines.
But last night he was accused of hypocrisy after a video emerged of him not only standing shoulder to shoulder with strikers, but vowing to continue to do so as party leader.
Last week, he sacked transport spokesman Sam Tarry MP, the partner of deputy leader Angela Rayner, for giving interviews on rail union picket lines.
Keir Starmer was accused of hypocrisy after a video emerged of him not only standing shoulder to shoulder with strikers, but vowing to continue to do so as party leader
'It's really important you get politicians to come out and support you and stand with you in this,' Sir Keir Starmer told University and College Union activists on a picket line outside University College London in February 2020
Last week, Sir Keir sacked transport spokesman Sam Tarry MP (pictured), for giving interviews on rail union picket lines
Defending the sacking, he declared: 'The Labour Party in opposition needs to be the Labour Party in power, and a government doesn't go on picket lines.'
Yet in February 2020 it appears he was singing a very different tune. In a video posted on Twitter yesterday, Sir Keir was captured with University and College Union activists on a picket line outside University College London.
He told strikers who were taking action over pay, equality and workloads: 'It's really important you get
