FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has called for the immediate scrapping of anti-union laws, declaring that now is the time to “end the Thatcherite experiment that wrecked Britain.”

Speaking at the union’s annual conference in Blackpool today, Mr Wrack said: “Fourteen years of Tory rule have left working people poor, angry and desperate for change. 

“Decades of deregulation, privatisation and attacks on workers have delivered nothing but misery for communities up and down the country.