Prime minister signals he will not give in to RMT demands and says rail reforms must be pushed through to cut costs for commuters
Johnson signals he will not give in to RMT rail demands, telling cabinet they must 'stay the course' and push through reformsopened cabinet this morning with a message saying reform in the rail industry was essential. In the past we normally only found out what the PM said at cabinet when No 10 briefed it out, but for the last few weeks Johnson has been using cabinet as a photo opportunity and he has invited in a camera crew to record his opening spiel.
The integrated rail plan alone was worth £96bn, he said. It was “truly transformational”, he claimed.But if we’re going to do these colossal investments, as we are and as we must, we’ve got to have reform ... It cannot be right that some ticket offices, I think, are selling roughly one ticket per hour. We need to get those staff out from behind the plate glass onto the platforms interacting with passengers, with customers, in the way that they want to do.
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