The Tories are under pressure in more ways than one. They may have hoped the withdrawal of some larger trade unions from the pensions fight might have finished it off.
Activists across public sector unions are fighting for coordinated national strikes against the Tories. Workers keep on voting overwhelmingly for more strikes.
The Tories want to spend £380 every minute on plans to privatise snooping. They want cops, intelligence officers and council officials to monitor the websites that people visit.
‘We never claimed we were publishing details of every occasion the prime minister had met with a donor’A Tory spokesperson after the Sunday Times revealed yet more donor dinners with David Cameron