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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ashley Cowburn

Government cannot allow ‘militant’ unions to ‘win argument’, Dominic Raab says

EPA

Dominic Raab has said the government cannot “relent” and allow striking rail workers to “win” the argument amid the biggest industrial action on the network in three decades.

Risking a fresh clash, the deputy prime minister also described the actions of the country’s largest rail union, RMT, as “militant” — just minutes after insisting the government did not want the dispute to become “politicised”.

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