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Описание: Sir Keir Starmer’s control over Labour has been significantly weakened after one of the party’s key backers at Unison elected a left-wing critic of the prime minister. Andrea Egan, a grassroots activist who has promised to review the union’s relationship with Labour, ousted the incumbent general secretary, Christina McAnea. Egan won almost 60 per cent of the vote compared with 40 per cent for McAnea and will take up her post in January.

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Egan’s victory will deprive Starmer of crucial support on his party’s ruling national executive committee (NEC), a scenario described as an “utter disaster” by senior Labour sources.

Unison is the UK’s largest union, with more than 1.3 million members providing public services in education, local government, the NHS, the police service and energy. They are employed in the public, voluntary and private sectors.

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The union gave Labour £1.49 million last year and is the party’s largest union donor — funding that could now be in doubt. Egan’s election is expected to herald a more muscular approach to public sector pay negotiations and potential strikes.

Egan was expelled from the Labour Party in 2022 and has vowed to “hold its feet to the fire” and end Unison’s “subservient” relationship with Downing Street.

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