FAST FOOD strikes offer a ray of hope to unions in engaging with young workers, speakers at a Morning Star conference said yesterday.

Delegates at the Scotland’s Youth conference heard that walkouts at McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s, UberEats and Wetherspoon’s were a sign that precarious workers can fight back.

Labour National Policy Forum member Caitlin Kane said that last week’s co-ordinated action marked an end to the “period of the political centre, when you couldn’t tell the difference between the two [main] parties.”