Natalie Elphicke’s anti-strike stance ‘incompatible’ with Labour, says TUC president

Exclusive: Matt Wrack describes ex-Tory's views as disgraceful' after she blamed deaths on striking firefighters

Keir Starmer is under fresh pressure over the former Tory MP Natalie Elphicke's defection to Labour after the president of the Trades Union Congress said her vocal support for anti-strike laws should be incompatible" with the party whip.

Matt Wrack, who is also the general secretary of the Labour-affiliated Fire Brigades Union, has described the MP for Dover and Deal's views as disgraceful" after she used a parliamentary intervention in March to blame firefighters for the deaths of three people who perished during a national strike.