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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Rail minister Huw Merriman’s laptop stolen from pub day after biggest strike in a decade

An investigation has been launched after the rail minister’s laptop containing confidential information about negotiations on the train strikes was stolen from a central London pub, the Evening Standard has learned.

Huw Merriman’s work computer was taken from under his chair at a bar in Covent Garden, the day after the biggest strikes in more than a decade.

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