DAVID CAMERON was criticised yesterday for refusing to meet TUC leader Frances O’Grady over the Tories’ Trade Union Bill.

Ms O’Grady requested a meeting with the Prime Minister following the Tories’ re-election in a letter to Downing Street sent on May 15.

Five months later, Mr Cameron has not even bothered to respond to the head of Britain’s trade union federation.

Ms O’Grady said the TUC’s member unions, which include six million working people, would find the Prime Minister’s actions “discourteous.”

Labour MP Stephen Doughty said: “It’s quite surprising that the Prime Minister is not willing to meet an organisation representing 10 per cent of our population.”

Separate documents issued by Downing Street, disclosing details of Mr Cameron’s engagements, show he last met with the TUC on July 31 2014.

More recently, Mr Cameron has found time to meet Sun newspaper representatives twice this year, along with other business lobbyists.

A Downing Street spokesman told the Star that staff had now “been in touch” with Ms O’Grady’s office about the letter.

The TUC chief revealed the snub as she tore apart the Tory justification for the proposed anti-strike laws at a hearing of a parliamentary committee considering the Trade Union Bill.

She said: “It’s important to be clear from the start that the real reason for this Bill is to give employers new ways to take unions to court and thereby impose penalties, seek damages and injunctions.”

Turnout thresholds on strike ballots that breach international labour rights and laws allowing bosses to break strikes with agency labour are part of the Bill.

Unions may also have to submit “picket plans” to the police two weeks before any action, giving the names and addresses of striking workers and any social media posts they plan to make.

Tory MPs threw in unsubstantiated allegations of union members intimidating non-striking workers in a bid to justify the legislation.

But GMB general secretary Paul Kenny hit back, saying: “Please, nobody tell me about intimidation on picket lines.

“I’ve seen lots of it. I’ve seen people blacklisted from work for 20 years because they stood on a picket line. I’ve seen people intimidated by managers. But there’s nothing in this Bill about any of that, is there?”

And a representative of the National Police Chiefs’ Council warned MPs not to turn officers into government enforcers.

Norfolk Deputy Chief Constable Charlie Hall said that in most cases “there’s no real need for the police to be involved with industrial disputes. Indeed … if we can avoid it, we would wish to.”