AS we go through the circus of the “coronation” of Rishi Sunak as the third unpopular Tory prime minister in three months being imposed upon us, across the labour movement we should be clear in understanding that the Tories have always held trade unions in contempt, and always will.

The reasons for this are simple at their core — we, as trade unions, empower workers to stand together collectively to demand better and support them in doing so, which goes against the key Tory ethos of helping the rich get richer whilst the working class should be “knowing their place,” both in terms of the workplace and broader society.

The new proposed round of anti-trade union restrictions from the Tories were initially set out by the now-departed Liz Truss over recent weeks and came on top of Boris Johnson pushing through changes in his last days in government to the law that allowed employers to use agency labour to break a strike.