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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Nicholas Cecil

'Call off the Tube strikes,' bosses urge as RMT union threatens £210 million blow to London

Business leaders appealed for looming Tube strikes to be called off as they threaten to cause travel misery for many Londoners and hit the capital with a bill estimated at £210million.

They warned that the RMT industrial action would be an “own goal” for the city as its economic uplift earlier in the year is already under threat from Donald Trump’s Iran war.

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