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Labour frontbenchers likely to be disciplined for joining rail pickets

At least five MPs defy Keir Starmer’s orders and tweet pictures of themselves with RMT strikers

Keir Starmer is expected to discipline at least five Labour frontbenchers who defied his orders and appeared on RMT picket lines on Tuesday in solidarity with striking railworkers.

On the first of three days of industrial action, the Labour leader had instructed his team not to appear alongside striking workers, in order to show “leadership”, amid fears of Labour being portrayed by the Tories as responsible for the RMT’s walkout.

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