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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze & Dan Bloom & Lizzy Buchan

Brazen Grant Shapps claims striking paramedics are 'risking lives' in 'poison' crackdown

Brazen Grant Shapps has claimed paramedics are putting “lives at risk” as his strikes crackdown is branded “poison”.

The Business Secretary is accused of “demonising” striking ambulance workers as he published a Bill to impose “minimum service levels” on key industries.

Tory backbencher Stephen McPartland launched a stinging attack on the Bill, tweeting: "Shameful, shameful, shameful to target individual workers & order them to walk past their mates on picket line or be sacked.

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