Bashing workers and shackling trade unions fighting to protect living standards, jobs and public services betrays a contempt for freedom and democracy at the heart of the Conservative Party.
With employment laws already more restrictive than those in neighbouring countries, it is nauseating to watch Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak competing to be the worst 21st-century equivalent of a 19th-century mill owner.
These tyrannical Tories reveal their contempt by bludgeoning desperate workers instead of tackling the causes of disputes or meeting union leaders to discuss resolutions.
Imposing minimum service obligations would effectively outlaw strikes, enslaving some employees.
And it is unprincipled to set higher arbitrary ballot barriers for unions when the Tory Party does not have to clear such hurdles itself when installing a new Prime Minister.
Anti-union prejudice puts the Tories on the wrong side of decency.
The right to strike is a fundamental one. The Government is the problem, not trade unions.
Gold digger
Boris Johnson flaunts his privileged connections by holding his wedding party in the country mansion of the billionaire JCB chief, a Tory Party donor made an unelected lawmaker in the House of Lords.
The cost of living crisis clearly doesn’t start at home for a toppled PM lecturing nurses, teachers, police officers and everyone else to accept pay awards way below inflation.
The Tory PM and his Tory wife enjoying the hospitality of a Tory peer just underlines that they’re all in this together.
Pride and joy
Women's football is guaranteed a bright future after big stadium crowds and huge TV audiences hailed England’s Lionesses.
With more girls and young women playing in schools and for clubs, a sport growing healthily at the grassroots will hit the back of the net time after time.
