Starmer finds grateful TUC audience – and paltry Commons dissent on winter fuel allowance | John Crace

PM becomes first to address union conference in 15 years before Mel Stride struggles to rouse revolt in benefit cut vote

Sometimes it’s all about the little things. The details. Like actually bothering to turn up and show your face.

For the last 14 years the Tory government had always insisted it was on the side of the hard-working people of Britain. And yet in that time none of the five different prime ministers thought it worth their while making the hour-long train ride to Brighton to speak to the TUC conference. Or to even open a dialogue. Perhaps because they imagined that only slackers needed a union.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/M3HGdwn