Union boss 'set alarm early' to hate Thatcher for longer

A senior union leader has said he loathed Margaret Thatcher so much he set his alarm clock an hour earlier so he could ‘hate her for an hour longer’ each day.

Tosh McDonald, president of train drivers union Aslef, told the Labour Party conference he stopped the practice after the former prime minister’s death in 2013 but still wakes early.

Delegates booed at the mention of Baroness Thatcher, who Mr McDonald said came to power a month before he started work on the railway in 1979.

Speaking in Liverpool, he said: ‘I hated her. I wish I could be like Jeremy and rise above it but I can’t…

‘I did set my alarm clock an hour earlier than I needed just so I could hate her for an hour longer.

‘Since she died I don’t do that anymore, I just set my alarm at the right time, but I still wake up an hour earlier – I can’t help it.’

Elsewhere at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said Labour have not ruled out giving people the option to vote on remaining in the EU in a future Brexit referendum.

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To rapturous applause from party delegates in Liverpool, the shadow Brexit secretary said all options should be kept on the table, including a so-called “People’s Vote”.

Mr Starmer said Theresa May’s Chequers plans for leaving the EU looks set to fail six key tests set by Labour, and will therefore not be supported by Jeremy Corbyn’s party.