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Sharon Graham will become the first leader of the Unite trade union not to attend the Labour party’s annual conference.

Graham, who was elected as Unite’s first female leader last month on a ticket that promised to take the union “back to the workplace”, told the BBC that she felt her time would be better spent supporting workers involved in industrial disputes.

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