and Keir Starmer will visit Birmingham on Thursday during a Labor Party spat after a front bencher was fired after media appearances at a RMT picket line on Wednesday.
The party sacked shadow minister Sam Tarry after he defied Sir Keir’s ban on front benchers joining the pickets in support of striking railway workers.
The party said Mr Tarry had been “removed from the front seat”, saying it took “any breach of collective responsibility” seriously.
Sir Keir will meet with community leaders and attend the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as the debate over the dismissal continues.
Member of Parliament for York Central, Rachael Maskell, called on the Labor leader to visit picket lines on Wednesday night, while GMB Secretary-General Gary Smith said it was a “big own goal” for Labor to “turn a Tory Transport crisis into a Labor Party”. -make story”.
Meanwhile, former Labor Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott tweeted a photo of himself addressing striking miners when he was shadow transport minister in 1984.
Earlier, Association of employees for salaried transport general secretary Manuel Cortes, RMT boss Mick Lynch and Unite general secretary Sharon Graham criticized the resignation.
Tarry stood next to striking workers at London Euston station on Wednesday morning, despite Sir Keir’s orders to stay away from the demonstrations.
A Labor spokesperson said: “The Labor Party will always stand up for working people who fight for better wages and conditions at work.
“This isn’t about showing up on a picket line.
“Members of the front bench sign for collective responsibility.
“That also includes media appearances being approved and speaking for agreed frontbench positions.
“As a government waiting, any violation of collective responsibility is taken extremely seriously and for these reasons Sam Tarry has been removed from the front bench.”
In a statement, Mr Tarry said it was a “privilege” to serve on the top Labor squad.
“I remain committed to supporting the striking railway workers and campaigning for a Labor victory in the next general election, which I will fight relentlessly from the back seats,” he added.
Rail passengers faced new travel chaos on Wednesday after thousands of workers went on strike, paralyzing services across the country.
The summer’s union action has proved thorny for the Labor Party, with Sir Keir urging the opposition to “get into government”, while members of his own front bench have publicly supported the strikes.
He previously told Beth Rigby Interviews on Sky News: “If you’re in government, this is what I said to my shadow cabinet when we had the discussion … and you’re sitting around the cabinet table, then you have to solve these problems, you should ensure that the negotiations are successfully concluded.
“You can’t have a cabinet meeting and then go out on the picket line.”
Sir Keir said on Tuesday he would again tell his front-bank MPs not to join the striking workers in the latest action.
Mr Tarry told Sky News he “defied no one” but supported “40,000 low-paid transport workers”.
He later tweeted a photo that said he was “on the side of the members, not the establishment”.
A number of backbench Labor MPs also joined picket lines, including Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne, Brent Central MP Dawn Butler, Birmingham Hall Green MP Tahir Ali, Gateshead MP Ian Mearns and South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck.