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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil and Daniel Keane

Rail union’s ‘militant’ strikes will not win seven per cent pay rise, vows Dominic Raab

A packed bus in Leyton on Wednesday morning

(Picture: Ross Lydall/Evening Standard)

A Cabinet minister vowed on Wednesday that “militant” strikes by rail unions would not “win” pay demands of at least seven per cent as it would plunge Britain into a “vicious cycle” of spiralling inflation.

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab stressed that such soaring price rises would hit the lowest paid in the country hardest.

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