EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents explode Unite’s denials of Graham’s husband’s bullying of staff

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Earlier in August 2026, Maddison Wheeldon exposed, for the Canary and Skwawkbox, bullying and misogyny toward staff by Jack Clarke, husband of Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham. Skwawkbox first revealed Clarke’s conduct – and Graham’s attempts to have recordings of it destroyed – several years ago, but new and exclusively leaked union transcripts of those recordings puts flesh on the diseased bones of the pair’s behaviour. And now, more leaked documents explode the union’s attempts to deny, deflect and smear. Boom, Unite When Ms Wheeldon contacted Unite for comment on her revelations, Unite attempted its habitual deflection-by-smear. The union claimed…

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EXCLUSIVE: Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

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Sharon Graham’s former Unite election campaign organiser Matt Smith now supports her opponent, Simon Dubbins. Having seen Graham in action as general secretary, Smith believes that another five years of Graham would be “an utter disaster for our union”. But he didn’t only play an extensive role in her 2021 general secretary election campaign. According to senior union insiders, he “wrote her manifesto”. Unite endured five misused years under Graham Smith said that Graham has increased corruption at Unite rather than reduce it. He claimed that she had appointed useless cronies to senior positions and even made up a “ghost job”…

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