Rishi Sunak tonight faces a growing backlash against "a sacking of nurses bill" forcing striking workers to "betray their mates".
"Draconian" new laws allowing the Government to set minimum staffing levels during public service walkouts were branded "irrational and so insulting” by opponents.
In a tense House of Commons debate, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner fumed: "I've been a member of this House for some seven years and I can't recall a measure that's at once so irrational and so insulting.