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What can the movement learn from the election of Sharon Graham as leader of Unite?
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LAST month’s election of Sharon Graham as Unite’s general secretary has shaken up the movement a fair bit.
Most of the left commentariat outside of Unite’s structures were a bit caught out, having thrown their support behind Steve Turner and/or Howard Beckett.
If their mistake was to disregard Graham’s campaign and approach as “not political,” the wider lesson across the left in the movement is the trap of first past the post in elections leading to left candidates trying to do a deal to squeeze out the “worst last” in the vote.
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