Nadhim Zahawi is playing into Putin’s hands, not striking nurses

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Nadhim Zahawi is playing into Putin’s hands, not striking nurses

Britain’s current wave of strikes, according to Nadhim Zahawi, chairman of the Tory party, is “exactly what Putin wants to see”. He accused nurses of playing into the Russian dictator’s hands by taking industrial action on 15 December.  Accusing strikers of being unpatriotic is a tactic going back to the Napoleonic era. Zahawi, however, has given it a new and unfortunate twist. Because the right to strike – and form free trade unions – is exactl…