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THIS IS THE CENTURY-DEAD TRADE UNIONIST WHO HAS BECOME THE MOST INFLUENTIAL POLITICAL VOICE OF THE SUMMER

ecent industrial action by members of the RMT union has created something of a buzz around its General Secretary Mick Lynch, and has thrust him and his Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey into the media spotlight. Lynch and Dempsey have stood out as straight-talking speakers with none of the equivocation or oily double-speak so evident from Boris Johnson and his government. This has resulted in Lynch in particular gaining a public profile, and journalists seemed

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