The Government should "get around the table" with rail unions for talks and launch a last-ditch bid to halt "cruel" strikes due to take place this week, a Tory MP has said.
Jake Berry, who chairs the Northern Research Group of backbench Conservatives, broke ranks on Sunday to warn ministers the "only way out of a dispute is via negotiation".
It comes after the RMT union confirmed that strikes at Network Rail and 13 train operators will go ahead on Tuesday, Thursday and next Saturday, and on London Underground on Tuesday.
