Downing Street Hires Top Union Apparatchik On Public Payroll

Starmer has hired as Downing Street’s “Director of Trade Union Relations“, you guessed it, a top trade union official. Claire Stewart, a former Unison organiser and key aide to general secretary Christina McAnea, is taking up the role. Stewart is deeply embedded in Unison’s architecture – her mother was formerly head of press and broadcasting for the union…

Stewart also used to work as chief of staff for suspended shadow minister Bambos Charalambous, and was allegedly involved in secret wrangling over Unison General Secretary leadership bids in 2017.[…] Read the rest