Postal workers’ secret plot to destroy the election by going on strike weeks before the vote

Postal workers are plotting to disrupt the election by going on strike in the weeks before the vote, the Telegraph has learned.

The Royal Mail has written to trade union bosses pleading with them not to “threaten the integrity of our democracy” by refusing to deliver millions of postal votes, it is understood.

It comes after members of the Communication Workers Union, which represents more than two-thirds of Royal Mail’s 140,000-strong workforce, voted overwhelmingly for industrial action earlier this month.

Union leaders now plan to deliberately target the election by staging a mass walkout in the weeks before December 12. Last night Consevative MPs accused the CWU of attempting to “hold British…