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The return to civil disobedience
Lavery warns of workers’ reaction to Trade Union Bill

TORY attempts to crush dissent from cuts by curbing trade union rights will meet “civil disobedience,” Labour MP Ian Lavery has predicted.

The Trade Union Bill took another step closer to becoming law last night as it cleared the Commons despite the protests of progressive MPs.

Mr Lavery, who leads Labour’s Trade Union Group of MPs, called the Bill a “ferocious, full-frontal attack on the trade union movement.”

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