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Threats to use the Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Act were ramped up during this week’s annual conference of the Conservative Party.

Labour's Johan Lamont and Alistair Darling with the Tories' Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie of the LibDems at the launch of Better Together

If the turnout in the current ballot fails to reach the legal threshold, it will not be down to any lack of will to fight among nurses, but a massive vote of no confidence in Cullen and the bureaucracy she heads.

Early on 6 May, before the day’s coronation procession, police arrested Graham Smith and other organisers of the republican protest planned around the procession, and confiscated their placards. The cops cited, so the BBC reports, “suspicion of affray, public order offences, breach of the peace and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance”. On 8 May the police told the organisers they would take “no further action”; the organisers are now talking to lawyers about suing the police.

Peers in the House of Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill yesterday, known as the ‘anti-strike bill’, which would protect workers from being dismissed for taking part in otherwise lawful strike action.