🗣️The Transport Secretary has blasted the nationwide rail strikes as "unnecessary" as Britain's rail network grinds to a halt.
He added there is "nothing" the government can do that would change the strike action this week
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🚨Trade union workers need to "co-ordinate industrial action across every town and city in Britain", the head of the RMT union has said
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➡️Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of wanting to transform himself into one of the "1970s union barons"
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🚖Uber users in London are being hit with a surge in prices amid strikes on the railways and London Underground.
A three-mile journey from Paddington to King's Cross was estimated to cost £27 at 8.45am
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🔴Several Labour MPs have joined picket lines in a display of solidarity with striking rail workers, despite Keir Starmer warning his frontbench to stay away
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🗣️Commuters must "stay the course" in order to force through much-needed reforms to Britain's rail network, the Prime Minister has said
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🔴Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union, has accused Grant Shapps of “spouting nonsense”
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Are trains running from your station?
Use our interactive tool to see all the closed routes and partial services ⬇️
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🚆Train stations across the UK were deserted this morning's rush hour
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🚗This graph shows how the strikes have impacted traffic levels in the capital ⬇️
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🔴Downing Street has no specific timetable for introducing a long-promised new law which will require a minimum service to be maintained during industrial action despite fears the UK could face a summer of strikes
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Here is a breakdown of what each union across different sectors is demanding ⬇️
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🔴Rail strikes are "like lockdown all over again", a small business owner has said, as the biggest industrial action in a generation brought the country to a standstill today
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➡️Rail strikes ‘cannot be allowed to succeed’ or wave of copy-cat walkouts will follow, warns Ken Clarke
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📸Empty stations in pictures
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🔴Network Rail has said it will not delay overhauling the organisation and cutting 1,800 jobs.
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A patient undergoing heart surgery could be left stranded almost 100 miles away from home after the operation due to the ongoing rail strike.
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📸A national train and Tube strike has paralysed the country, leaving some of our most beautiful stations deserted
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🔴Only five routes travelling out of Glasgow and Edinburgh were left running after 40,000 Network Rail Staff downed their tools across the UK
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