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  Trade union leaders accused right-wing "Tory Taliban" MPs of stirring up a hate-filled campaign to bring in tougher anti-union laws today. A tightly knit group of headbanger Tories led by Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton) presented a Commons Bill designed to present a flarepath for a government clampdown on the unions.
  
  Among demands put forward in Mr Raab's 10-minute rule Bill is that an absolute majority of union members must be required for any strike action in the transport sector or emergency services.
  
  General union GMB general secretary Paul Kenny warned: "This is Tory Taliban mentality."
  Mr Kenny dismissed Mr Raab's Bill as "puerile propaganda" and "a piece of 10-minute rubbish." Unemployment is up, the economy is on the edge of the precipice, the bankers are unchecked, and the government is at war with itself. So what shall we do? I know, let's bash the unions.
  
  Rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow clashed with Mr Raab on Radio 4 yesterday.
  Mr Crow destroyed Mr Raab's argument by asking him if he believed that at least 50 per cent of the electorate must vote yes or no in next week's nationwide ballot on changing to an AV electoral system.
  
  Mr Raab was forced to confess: "I wouldn't support a threshold for the AV vote, because a referendum which goes to the popular vote is not giving MPs or anyone else a licence to coerce others." Mr Crow said this laid bare the "hypocrisy" of the Tory right-wing.
  "They want one law for the political class and another for the working class.

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