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Nicholas Cecil

New Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan offers to ‘work as a family’ with unions to end rail strikes

New Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan reaching out to unions to try to end strikes

(Picture: PA Wire)

New Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan offered on Friday to “work as a family” with rail unions and train bosses to find a compromise to end the wave of strikes blighting the country.

With a shift away from her predecessors’ more confrontational approach, she reached out to the militant RMT and other unions to seek a “landing zone” which would resolve the dispute if all parties “put their best foot forward” .

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