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Jun 21 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
🗣️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

Follow the latest updates 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2…
🚨Trade union workers need to "co-ordinate industrial action across every town and city in Britain", the head of the RMT union has said

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Members of the public locked out of Victoria Station on the
➡️Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of wanting to transform himself into one of the "1970s union barons"

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2… A deserted Clapham Junction at 6.30am this morning | CREDIT:
🚖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
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2… Passengers getting off the train at Waterloo station
🔴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

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🗣️Commuters must "stay the course" in order to force through much-needed reforms to Britain's rail network, the Prime Minister has said

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2… Crowds of commuters at Liverpool Street station during rush
🔴Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union, has accused Grant Shapps of “spouting nonsense”

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union, is pictu
From our Political Editor 👇
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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

Read the latest on the #railstrike ⤵️
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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

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… A man stands with his bike at Waterloo Station in central Lo
Here is a breakdown of what each union across different sectors is demanding ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2…
🔴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
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2… Women check a sign informing people about industrial strike
➡️Rail strikes ‘cannot be allowed to succeed’ or wave of copy-cat walkouts will follow, warns Ken Clarke
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Ken Clarke Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
📸Empty stations in pictures
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2… Six-year-old Renae English at Waterloo Station this morning A passenger waits at Great Malvern train station in WorcesteTravellers wait with luggage at Victoria train station on Ju
🔴Network Rail has said it will not delay overhauling the organisation and cutting 1,800 jobs.

Read more here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
A patient undergoing heart surgery could be left stranded almost 100 miles away from home after the operation due to the ongoing rail strike.

Read more ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2…
📸A national train and Tube strike has paralysed the country, leaving some of our most beautiful stations deserted
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/2…
🔴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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