President urges UNISON activists to take up election challenge

“We are going to need every bit of your campaigning abilities,” UNISON president Josie Bird told the union’s disabled members’ conference in Brighton this morning, after the announcement of a December general election.
With a prime minister “who does not respect democracy” and has even lied to the Queen, she said it would “be laughable if it were not so serious. It’s no way to run a country”.
But “now we have a chance to change all that