Labour must do more to tackle populist right as party’s support leaks to Reform, say unions

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak urged government to show working people ‘whose side you are on’

Union chiefs have warned that Labour must do more to tackle the threat of the populist right amid concerns the party is losing support among working people to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the TUC, urged the government to show working people “whose side you are on”, saying too many felt that Labour’s promise of change was just a slogan.