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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford,Nicholas Cecil and Anna Davis

Tube and rail strikes: Unions told not to ruin pupils’ school exams as ‘summer of discontent’ looms

Rail and Tube unions were hit with fury on Friday over a series of strikes during the school exams season which threaten to “impact long-term on children’s lives”.

School standards minister Robin Walker said rail and Tube workers had a “public duty” to ensure that children could get to school to take crucial GCSEs and A-levels. Those taking their exams this summer have already had their education affected by two years of the Covid pandemic.

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