Left-wing Labour MPs vowed “solidarity” with striking railway workers as they promised to join picket lines across the country today.
Sir Keir Starmer has tried to steer a middle course on today’s walkouts, neither condemning the strikers nor embracing their actions.
Mick Lynch, the RMT’s general secretary, yesterday accused Starmer and his team of “standing to one side and waiting for somebody to tell them what do”. He urged them instead to “ride that wave of resistance” as “a way to connect to working-class people in working-class communities so they can get their votes back”.
But MPs on Labour’s left went much further than Starmer and endorsed the RMT’s strikes. John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, said: “I will be joining picket lines tomorrow”
