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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nicholas Cecil and Jitendra Joshi

Deputy PM Oliver Dowden’s message to rail unions: ‘Don’t take us for fools’

Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister on Friday told rail workers set to inflict more strike misery on London and across the train network that their “jobs are on the line”.

In a forthright intervention, Oliver Dowden warned them, and the rail unions, that they should not take “Londoners and commuters for fools” as they could be pushed into “permanently adapting away from using the railways on a routine basis”.

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