Rail strikes: Mick Lynch says ministers should ‘stop play-acting’

Unions and industry leaders to meet ministers in attempt to break deadlock

The RMT leader, Mick Lynch, said ministers should stop play-acting" and end the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions on the railway, before a meeting in Whitehall on Monday.

Rail unions and industry leaders were to meet ministers in an attempt to break the deadlock, on the first day in almost a month that the railways have not been disrupted by industrial action.