Leftwinger Sharon Graham is on course to pull off a shock victory to become the general secretary of the Unite union, HuffPost UK can reveal. Extensive sampling of ballot papers in the contest shows Graham, the union’s national organiser, is narrowly ahead of both the one-time favourite Steve Turner and centrist candidate Gerard Coyne. She would become Unite’s first ever female general secretary, replacing Len McCluskey to lead Britain’s second biggest union and Labour’s biggest funder. A senior former Unite official told HuffPost UK that the count had been all but concluded and candidates were set to be informed Graham had won as early as Tuesday evening. If she does it will be an historic victory for the campaign and the workers in Britain and Ireland”.

Source: Huffington Post August 24, 2021 15:55 UTC