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Why we should admire Mick Lynch

10 January 2025

5:00 PM

10 January 2025

5:00 PM

Rail union leader Mick Lynch has announced his retirement. No doubt there will be plenty who will breathe a sigh of relief, be it the politicians and hapless interviewers he has skewered on live television, to the passengers whose commutes were disrupted by the RMT’s strikes.

Pugnacious in both appearance and attitude, he is a stereotypical leftie from the days of I’m All Right Jack.

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