Protesters gathered outside the offices of Blyth Valley MP Ian Levy's office on Saturday morning.
Mr Levy's was one of four Tory MP offices targeted across the country ahead of the proposed law to require minimum service levels in some sectors during strike action. Workers claim that the legislation, which was unveiled by Grant Shapps and could force people to work during strikes to maintain these so-called "minimum service levels" in key industries or risk facing the sack, has been "rushed-through".
The bill has passed its first stage in the House of Commons earlier this week and will need to go through several further stages in both the Commons and the House of Lords before it becomes law. It is not the first controversial bill proposed by the Conservative Government post-Covid, with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act being enshrined into law in 2022, which some have argued effectively outlaws protest.
