Keir Starmer’s union problem

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Keir Starmer’s union problem

Trade unions are back. Just about. After nine prime ministers and a world turned upside down, unions are edging into the government’s economic thinking again. It wouldn’t surprise me if the idea of “industrial relations” was hovering somewhere at the back of Keir Starmer’s mind. He’s a lawyer after all, and Harold Wilson is his favourite Labour leader. Between 1964 and 1979, the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath governments put an enormous amount of e…