Prentis elected president of TUC

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Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, has become president of the Trades Union Congress.

He was elected as the TUC's annual gathering in Brighton drew to a close.

Mr Prentis was already a member of the TUC's general council and executive, and is a director at the Institute of Public Policy Research think-tank.

He promised to lobby the government to help "vulnerable workers" in the UK who were enduring "poverty wages, excessive hours and shocking ill-treatment".

He succeeds Alison Shepherd, who is a member of Unison and has been president of the TUC for the past 12 months.