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Unite leader Sharon Graham: Labour isn't being Labour. Farage could be PM

Unite leader Sharon Graham: Labour isn't being Labour. Farage could be PM

Update: 2025-09-261
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The first female general secretary of the Unite union is clear about her priorities: “jobs, pay, and conditions”. She is also convinced that Labour is failing to improve all three.


Unite is one of the party’s biggest financial and political backers, but Sharon Graham says Labour has strayed from its working class roots. Now she is threatening to pull the union’s funding for the party entirely.


In a wide-ranging interview, she tells Kamal Ahmed about where Starmer is going wrong; why Reform’s Nigel Farage “puts his finger on the pulse”; and the future of Unite’s relationship with Labour.


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Unite leader Sharon Graham: Labour isn't being Labour. Farage could be PM

Unite leader Sharon Graham: Labour isn't being Labour. Farage could be PM