I was proud to stand with our local NHS workers in St Helens, and their trade union Unison, throughout their dispute with Compass, and I’m prouder still that they have won.

They took on a multi-national outsourcing giant and won a significant increase in hourly pay, improved unsocial hours payments and better sick pay schemes.

It is a victory for rights, decency and dignity at work, as well as unity and solidarity in our NHS.