Truss and Sunak need to realise that banning strikes isn’t the answer

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Neither Tory leadership candidate is in favour of allowing strikes in essential services (EPA)

Both contenders remaining in the Tory leadership race, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have expressed the authoritarian view that strikes in essential services should be outlawed.

A more egalitarian solution might be to mandate face-to-face meetings between the union leader, the CEO of the company and a senior government minister. Twelve or sixteen hours a day until compromise is reached might concentrate all their minds.

Susan Alexander