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Andy McDonald's resignation spells trouble for Starmer

28 September 2021

2:39 AM

28 September 2021

2:39 AM

Andy McDonald has resigned from Labour’s shadow cabinet after Keir Starmer refused to back raising the Minimum Wage to £15 an hour. In his resignation letter, he writes:

‘Yesterday, your office instructed me to go into a meeting to argue against a National Minimum Wage of £15 an hour and against Statutory Sick Pay at the Living Wage.

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