PM Rishi Sunak’s “dead-end government is scapegoating workers with unworkable and counterproductive” proposals to further curb the human right to strike, the labour movement charged today.

Ministers have confirmed plans to introduce anti-worker legislation requiring key public services to maintain a minimum level of service during walkouts, severely blunting the impact of strikes.

The proposed Bill, which could give bosses powers to sue unions and sack workers who refuse to break their own legally held industrial action, would include health, education, fire and rescue, transport, border security and nuclear sectors.