{"id":55858,"date":"2024-09-10T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55858"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:09:21","slug":"starmer-to-become-first-uk-pm-to-address-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55858","title":{"rendered":"Starmer to become first UK PM to address trade unions in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will become the first UK leader to address the annual meeting of Britain&#8217;s trade unions in 15 years on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starmer&#8217;s Labour party is billing the speech as a powerful symbol that the centre-left party is back in government after nearly a decade and a half of Conservative rule.<\/p>\n<p>Labour has historically been allied with trade union organisations, which contribute a substantial amount to the party&#8217;s income.<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Union Congress (TUC), the umbrella body of 48 member unions comprising more than 5.5 million working people, helped found Labour in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown was the last premier to deliver a speech to its conference in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer, 62, is set to tell TUC delegates in the seaside resort of Brighton that he &#8220;will champion unions and business to come together&#8221; to refire Britain&#8217;s economy, according to excerpts of the speech released by Labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will become the first UK leader to address the annual meeting of Britain&#8217;s trade unions in 15 years on Tuesday. Starmer&#8217;s Labour party is billing the speech as a powerful symbol that the centre-left party is back in government after nearly a decade and a half of Conservative rule. Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2255],"class_list":["post-55858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-starmer-to-become-first-uk-pm-to-address-trade-unions-in-15-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}