Britain hit by mass strikes

London - Britain has been hit by the most wide-ranging wave of work stoppages in a decade, with more than 100,000 public sector employees, from teachers to coastguards, striking against the Labour government. Today's strikes were another blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown after he was forced by party rebels into a humiliating policy reversal over tax cuts yesterday. The industrial action comes a week ahead of local elections that will be his first major test at the ballot box.

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