Len McCluskey: unions ready to defy law over public sector pay cap

Unite leader says illegal strike would mean people following in footsteps of historic figures such as Mandela and GandhiLen McCluskey has threatened to break the law over the government’s failure to scrap the public sector pay cap for all workers, claiming that anyone who is prepared to do so would be following in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and the suffragettes.After Jeremy Corbyn and a succession of union leaders criticised an offer from ministers to increase pay only