Building and strengthening trade unions is essential to improving living standards and countering the rise of far-right politics.

“And the only antidote I think to what's happening in this world really is obviously support progressive politics but also build trade unions.”

The filmmaker is a supporter of trade unions because they provide protection for workers.

“It's the It's the trade union. >> Yeah. >> So, >> big union guy. >> Yeah. I love it. >> You do like the union. >> I do. >> Really? >> It protects you in your work.”

Peter Hitchens argues that the reduction in strikes was not due to clever policy but because the industries involved were eliminated.

“But do you know why this is? Is this because Margaret Thatcher came up with an immensely clever formula to stop people from going on strike? It's no, it's because all those industries in which people used to go on strike no longer exist.”

Michael Gove believes the defeat of trade unions was necessary because they were holding the country to ransom.

“more particularly, the number of strikes and the crippling ability of trade unions to hold the country to ransom has gone. And that's because of the trade union legislation”

Suzanne Moore views the destruction of trade unions during the Thatcher era as a harmful act that broke up communities.

“The miners' strike was this country's last civil war, and I will never forget it. It was about breaking up whole communities.”