Sunday 19 June 2022 10:55 PM Grant Shapps urges Keir Starmer to condemn rail strikes set to cause travel ... trends now
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Grant Shapps last night urged Keir Starmer to finally condemn the rail strikes that will cause chaos for millions of travellers tomorrow.
The Transport Secretary called on the Labour leader to issue a last-minute appeal for the unions to reopen their negotiations with bosses.
Sir Keir stopped short of denouncing the action yesterday, merely repeating his line that the ‘strikes should not go ahead’.
Services on the railways will be crippled from tomorrow in the biggest walkout for more than 30 years in a row over pay, jobs and conditions. Around 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union will also strike on Thursday and Saturday. Travel on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday will be badly affected.
The Transport Secretary, pictured, highlighted revelations in The Mail on Sunday about how Sir Keir had effectively backed the strikes by opposing attempts to block them
The RMT and Unite are holding a 24-hour walkout on London Underground tomorrow, which will cause further disruption.
Mr Shapps yesterday accused the unions of resisting the ‘modernisation of some very antiquated working practices’.
And in a letter to Sir Keir, he wrote: ‘This week, the RMT union will inflict huge disruption on families and businesses with the biggest rail strikes
