'They've just told another lie.' General Secretary of RMTunion Mick Lynch denies that the RMT will not speak to government and insists it is up to them to 'approach the table constructively'. Latest here:
Updates from our correspondents around the UK - live reporting by Richard Williams and Bhvishya PatelWe have been hearing a lot about the impact the rail strikes are having on students taking their exams.
"I actually do sympathise but I disagree with the timing. The timing isn't good. I strongly believe the government should have never allowed the situation to escalate to this." MJ Shannon, a bar manager, said she had to take a £30 Uber taxi, instead of a local train service, from Hale, Cheshire, where she was at a training event, to get to Manchester Piccadilly before a train home to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
After flying in from South Africa this morning, she took a train to Paddington, a bus to Bow, before walking across Victoria Park to catch an Overground train from Homerton to Stratford, where she caught another bus. Add that to the fact that hospitality was one of the hardest-hit by the coronavirus restrictions, on top of staff shortages, and the cost-of-living pressures most of us are facing… you have the perfect storm.
She added:"Although spending in suburbia may hold up, with more commuters staying at home and venturing out more locally instead, the strike is set to empty streets in urban areas. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation issued a joint statement with the TUC calling for the"unworkable" plan to hire agency workers to fill in for strikers to be abandoned.
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