KEIR Starmer has been challenged to back the devolution of employment law to Scotland and team up with the SNP to defend workers against the Westminster Tories “attack on rights”.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn wrote to the Labour leader inviting him to a meeting to “find common cause” and “work together” to stop Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike law bid.

The Prime Minister last week promised “tough” new laws to limit the impact of strike action, but has faced fierce opposition from trade unions. The legislation would include widening its scope to ensure minimum levels of service during industrial action on transport or other critical public services, including the NHS.

It comes as healthcare workers including nurses, paramedics, postal and rail workers, and Border Force staff are poised to take industrial action.

The PM’s official spokesman declined to provide a timeline or any details on the plans, saying only that they were to be brought in “as swiftly as possible”.

He indicated the minimum service level legislation, first promised in 2019, could be extended from imposing minimum service levels on transport to other public services.

Flynn, who took over as SNP Westminster group leader from Ian Blackford last month, wrote to Starmer ahead of Westminster returning from recess on Monday.

He said: “I am proposing that we meet, discuss, and agree the use of any and every parliamentary tactic that will help to obstruct and defeat this blatant attack on workers’ rights.

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