Tube strike: real reason why Boris wants tough new laws

Mayor is thinking ahead of today's Underground strike to the impending battle over driverless trains

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TODAY’S strike on the London Underground, which has disrupted hundreds of thousands of journeys into work, will almost certainly lead to a Tory election manifesto pledge to toughen trade union laws, it emerged this morning.

But will the new measures go as far as Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, would like? Probably not.

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