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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn

£100million Tube strike is surreal and irresponsible, blast business leaders

Commuters using the Jubilee line at Canary Wharf during the strike

(Picture: PA)

Furious central London business leaders condemned this week’s Tube strikes as a £100 million “kick in the teeth” that was a major setback to their efforts to recover from the pandemic.

The network was almost completely shut down on Tuesday by an RMT Tube workers’ walkout over pensions and jobs. It will be again largely halted by another 24-hour action on Thursday.

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