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As a hotel boss, I saw the chaos unions unleashed on Britain in the 1970s. Now Rayner's workers' rights Bill is set to drag us back to the age of socialism on steroids

As a hotel boss, I saw the chaos unions unleashed on Britain in the 1970s. Now Rayner's workers' rights Bill is set to drag us back to the age of socialism on steroids

Many people today will not remember the 1970s. Indeed, most of the leading figures in our Government are too young to do so. But I recall them only too well.

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