UK Union Chief Behind Rail Strikes Draws Fans With Fighting Talk
- RMT’s Mick Lynch calls Tory minister “liar,” lectures Labour
- Journalists also ridiculed by rail workers’ union leader
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Amid all the finger-pointing between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer over the UK’s worst rail strikes in three decades, one man’s leadership has stood out: Mick Lynch, the head of the union coordinating the stoppages.
The secretary-general of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers has won plaudits on social media with a series of combative television and radio appearances during which he’s attacked Johnson’s ruling Conservatives, Starmer’s opposition, and his interviewers.