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Hello and welcome to your coffee house shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

With three days worth of railway disruption looming large this week the transport

secretary Grant Shaps joined Sophie Ridge. Shaps denounced the planned strike action

aiming the blame squarely at the leadership of the RMT Union.

So we now know that next week strikes will go ahead.

What is the impact going to be?

I think it's a huge mistake.

Unfortunately, the unions, Mick Lynch, the RMT, have been gunning for this strike throughout.

Back in April, they called the strike on the false pretense with their members of taking themselves off the payfries which of course the whole of the public services had for the past couple of years.

That payfries was coming to an end anyway. The strikes are completely unnecessary. It's going to inconvenience millions of people, students

doing their GCSEs and A levels, 17 different public exams in fact. People trying to get the hospitals

to try to get to operations perhaps that have been

postponed during coronavirus it is disastrous and it's no way to behave on the railway

there's no advantage to this I know that Nick Lynch says he's quote

nostalgic for union power but this is no way to behave.

Sophie Rayworth also interviewed chaps picking him up on last week's call from the RMT for the government to get around the negotiating table.

The RMT leader, McLeinch, wrote to you just last week who requested a meeting without delay.

He wanted to talk to you you haven't

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