Jacob Rees-Mogg has attacked the government over its anti-strikes legislation, calling the bill 'badly written' and 'an extreme example of bad practice'
Mr Rees-Mogg - who held cabinet positions under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, but returned to the backbenches when Rishi Sunak took charge - also warned the holes in the bill left it more open to challenges in the courts.
Yet, despite his raft of criticism, the MP promised to back the plan and send it on to the House of Lords for further scrutiny, appealing to them to make the changes it needed.
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