Labour deputy Angela Rayner’s silence on crippling rail strikes is deafening

Riddle of Rayner's silence on rail strikes

THE very last thing post-pandemic, recession-threatened Britain needs is a rail strike.

Yet as the Prime Minister and Chancellor grapple with 1970s-style spiralling prices and energy bills, militant unions stand ready to seize their chance.

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Sensing weakness, these brutalist hard leftists see a series of actions hitting Network Rail and 15 train operators as their chance to cause maximum pain to the Tories.

That it could also cripple food and medical supplies for millions of hard-pressed families is worth it to the reckless RMT leadership.

Meanwhile, there is a deafening silence from Labour.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner has been unceasing in her attacks on Boris Johnson — putting out 65 public comments on Partygate.

She has posted her criticism of the privatisation of Channel 4 and even told her 500,000 Twitter followers about her appearance on Loose Women.

But on the biggest union walkout since the 1926 General Strike? Nothing.

We have a question for the Labour deputy leader.

What is it about the £5,700 donations you got from the RMT that caused you to lose interest in the rail strike?

Get Britain working

SCENES of horrific half-term queues at airports might be easily dismissed as a little local difficulty for the budget airlines.

In fact it is symptomatic of a wider cultural and economic problem.

Bosses at easyJet and TUI have discovered — like so many companies across the country — that they can’t recruit staff.

Covid-19 lockdowns caused irreparable damage to the economy while at the same time giving a generation of workers a glimpse of what they believe to be a perfect “work/life balance.” It’s a mirage.

The Government must encourage a return to the culture of proper work, starting with the civil service.

For our collective good, we must as a nation remember the idea of rolling up our sleeves and getting the job done.

At the moment, too much of Britain just isn’t working.

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THE death of Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory touched the nation.

It robbed husband Damian Lewis and their two teenage children of a wife and mother. She was one of our finest actresses.

But following this tragedy Damian has worked ceaselessly for good causes to cement his wife’s legacy.

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