Is the UK facing the biggest strike in almost 100 years?

An MP has called for the biggest strike in the UK in nearly 100 years if there is no general election before a Brexit deal is finalised.

Speaking at The World Transformed festival, which was organised by left-wing political organisation Momentum, the Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich Laura Smith called on supporters to help “topple this cruel and callous tory government” with industrial action.

“If we can’t get a general election, we should organise with our brothers and sisters in the trade unions and bring an end to this government with a general strike,” she said.

If such as strike was to occur, it would be the first general strike since 1926 when vast numbers of British people from many different industries refused to work as a result of coal miners having their wages cut and hours increased, the BBC reports.