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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

National rail strike: Government faces down ‘disrespectful’ union threatening rail chaos

Contingency plans are being drawn up to try to keep passenger and freight trains running

(Picture: PA Wire)

The Government is determined to “face down” the Tube union threatening to bring chaos to the Tube and mainline railways, a transport minister said on Wednesday.

Baroness Vere called on the RMT to get back round the negotiating table and said the walkouts it plans during and immediately after the Queen’s platinum jubilee bank holiday weekend were “enormously disrespectful”.

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