'We've got to have reform.' Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that union bosses must meet with rail companies to find a solution to industrial action. Full story:
"These reforms, these improvements in the way we run our railways are in the interests of the travelling public, they will help to cut costs for farepayers up and down the country."
He said the government believed in railways as a"vital part of levelling up across the country" but that without modernisation, financial pressure on them would push fares higher resulting in the"disaster" of declining rail use. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch told Sky News that without a change of direction from the government and employers, more strike action was"inevitable", and called for wider co-ordinated action across trade unions to try to"rebalance the inequalities in our society".
However the plan regarding agency workers has already been rejected as"unworkable" in a joint response by the recruitment industry's main trade body as well as the TUC.
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