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Worker-hating Tories at odds with the public over trade union rights
Britons don’t want more shackles on unions

MINISTERS’ mad rush to curb trade union rights is completely at odds with the political priorities of the public, a new poll showed yesterday.

Independent research by Survation found that just 2 per cent of people ranked the Trade Union Bill among their top three priorities.

Yet the Bill was among the first to be tabled by the Tories after the general election and could clear the Commons after its third reading today.

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