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Daniel Keane

Grant Shapps accuses union of ‘punishing millions of innocent people’ with strikes next week

Commuters pack onto buses at Victoria station during tube strikes on June 6

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has accused the RMT Union of “punishing millions of innocent people” by pressing ahead with train strikes next week.

The Cabinet minister claimed the union had “ignored” requests to negotiate a deal as the country braces for the biggest industrial action on the railways in a generation.

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