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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Rail stoppage is latest block to business revival

RMT union leader Mick Lynch is unapologetic for calling the rail strike (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Will it ever end? Just when London businesses finally thought the worst was over, bam, along comes a rail and Tube walk-out that will decimate revenues this week.

One central London five-star hotel told me that on Thursday alone it received £80,000 worth of cancellations. Imagine replicating that across the capital, just as the summer gets fully into its stride.

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