PM is a captive of the far right says Unite boss
PRIME Minister Theresa May is a “prisoner of the far right” who want a “cliff-edge” Brexit, Unite chief Len McCluskey warned yesterday.
The head of Britain’s biggest union said the hardliners’ true aim was to turn Britain into the “lowwage, deregulated, race-to-the-bottom society of their dreams”.
After telling the union’s policy conference in Brighton “to be clear – we are not calling for a second referendum” on Brexit he also said the union was “open to the possibility of a popular vote” on the final deal. But he stressed that the priority was to force an early general election so a Labour government could win a better deal. Mr McCluskey said Unite, which campaigned for Remain in the 2016 referendum, respected the verdict of Britain’s voters, but added: “They did not vote to lose their jobs or their hard-won social rights.”
Warning that key negotiations on Britain’s leaving terms had been “overshadowed by negotiations to try to hold the Tory Party together”, he said: “Theresa May has lost all authority. All capacity to make decisions. All power of initiative. She is held prisoner by the dogmatists and fantasists of the far right.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the conference the party would offer a “real voice” to working-class communities now being ignored.