Truss publishes plans to ensure transport services run during strikes

New bill means minimum service level must be in place or unions will lose legal protections from damages

Liz Truss has published controversial plans to make sure transport workers provide a minimum service level when they strike, ahead of a speech by Keir Starmer pledging to repeal all the Tories' new anti-trade union laws.

As the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union warned of a new wave of rail strikes all winter, Truss brought forward a new bill to ensure that transport services keep running during strike action.