Empty hall: Sunak’s party conference speech hit by rail strike
Once again, the decrepitude of Britain’s railways comes back to bite the PM.
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Once again, the decrepitude of Britain’s railways comes back to bite the PM.
There is a lot more wrong with Britain’s railway system than just union militancy. But the government has neither the imagination nor the shelf life to do anything radical about it.
Today’s rail strike is the first of eight planned days of disruption, with the chaos set to ensue for almost a month.
The government insists union demands are unrealistic, and that those striking are “out of step” with the woeful economic situation facing Britain.
As ministers scramble to avert rail strikes, weather forecasters and chemical weapons scientists are planning walkouts of their own.
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