Regretting those donations…
UPDATE: Rayner responds that she resigned her Unite membership several months ago, so cannot be suspended. Her membership was still on her registered interests as of May…
Labour’s biggest union backer Unite has voted to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership and ‘re-examine’ the union’s relationship with Labour. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham posted:
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β Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) July 11, 2025
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
βLet’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.β