Yannis Gourtsoyannis, a doctor, wants all strikes to be linked

A shadowy hard-left group with close links to Jeremy Corbyn is plotting a co-ordinated wave of strikes by junior doctors, teachers and rail guards to “get the Tories out”.

Leaders of all three disputes — and several other unions — have joined the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) to discuss “linking up” their industrial action in a bid to “change the government”. Tory MPs condemned the move as anti-democratic and probably illegal.

At an NSSN meeting in London last month, Yannis Gourtsoyannis, a member of the British Medical Association (BMA) junior doctors’ committee, spoke under a banner saying: “Link up all the strikes. Organise to take on the Tories. Get all the Tories out.”

Dr Gourtsoyannis said: “Building links between our unions is vital. Now