Unite boss calls Angela Rayner 'despicable' for failing to back bin workers

The head of the Unite union has branded Angela Rayner as 'despicable' for failing to back striking bin workers in Birmingham. Deputy Prime Minister Ms Rayner has already been kicked out of Labour's largest union paymaster over the bitter row, amid fury at her stance on the fiasco blighting Britain's 'second city'. And now, in the latest deepening of the rift between Labour and Unite, the union's general secretary Sharon Graham has issued a barbed broadside at Ms Rayner, claiming she had acted in a 'despicable way'.