Paul Novak
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130 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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Can I even say the word?
There's going to be lots of speculation.
At the TUC, we've got 47 unions.
They represent 5.5 million workers.
They're coming at different issues, representing different groups of members.
You've got 11 Labour-affiliated unions.
They'll agree on lots of things, but there'll be nuances and differences.
I think the one thing that they're all agreed on is that two years into a Labour government, and despite lots of the good things that have happened under this regime,
uh labor government for lots of trade union members and lots of people out there just generally they feel like change which is the one word on the front cover of that manifesto in july 2024 hasn't been delivered and our members fundamentally want to see change we've got far too many people who think that the economy and in fact
Politics isn't working for them.
And I think you could be talking to unions representing people in oil and gas or in EVs or unions representing people in care homes or supermarkets.
There's a sense of frustration out there that was reflected in those local election results in May and the results in Wales and Scotland.
Well, that's a fact of life.
I mean, our members are effectively a broad cross-section of the British public, and we know that hundreds of thousands of them probably voted for reform in that last set of elections.
That's not a surprise to me.
As I say, I think there's lots of people out there who feel disillusioned with mainstream politics.
I've been very clear.
Our job is not to tell members somehow they voted the wrong way or to patronise them or think that they're thick or racist or reactionary because they voted for reform.
I think we've got responsibility...
to point out the difference between reform and reality and the rhetoric.
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