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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Isabel Harman and Katie Bulls.

A first light on the agenda in which has been dominating the House of Commons this afternoon

are the government's plans to introduce minimum service levels in six key industries.

Grant Shouts with a dispatch box facing the off against Andrew Rainer.

Isabel, talk us through these proposals and why they're being introduced now.

So this is a very political piece of legislation both for the Conservatives and for Labour.

Labour have called it the sack the nurses bill because it basically in blue light areas,

in blue light areas of work. So ambulances, fire service and so on would require unions to

guarantee minimum service levels and in other sectors for there to be voluntary agreements in place.

Not to minimise the impact of strikes the Conservatives argue but just to ensure that there is

basic safety and that's the way they're framing it. So Grant Shouts frames it as it's amazing that

the Labour Party doesn't want to ensure that lives are safe when there's a strike on and we're not

blocking the right to strike. The way Labour is characterising it is that because part of this is

also that if the unions don't guarantee those minimum service levels then they could face legal

action they could be sued. And so Labour is saying not only does this kind of the right to strike

it also puts people's jobs at risk and how is this going to help sectors such as health care

which are facing workforce crises if you put even more jobs at risk. It's obviously a way

of bringing the Conservative Party back together after a bruising year and a bit because it's

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