The Wigan MP and rising shadow secretary pictured at a Communications Workers Union (CWU) picket in her constituency on Monday, five days after Sam Tarry was sacked for giving interviews to the media from a railway line and accused of Labour’s policy making. “on the hoof”. Last week, Labor leader Sir Keir said the previous ban on shadow ministers attending pickets still stood, arguing that “the Labor Party in opposition must be the Labor Party in power and a government does not picket lines’. In an article for the Sunday Mirror, he said he supported “the right of strikers to do so” but stopped short of supporting any specific industrial action, including the upcoming rail strikes and CWU action. A source close to Ms Nandy said Sir Keir knew in advance of her decision to attend the protests, adding: “She went to show her support for people campaigning for better pay and conditions at a really difficult time, as she would you did. expect. “As Keir said in the Mirror piece, we support their right to do that, and what they need now is a Labor government so they don’t feel they are alone when times are tough.” Navendu Mishra, a party whip, was also photographed on a CWU picket line in Stockport. He tweeted his support for the strikes, adding that it was a “shame that some in the workforce have to rely on food banks to survive”.
