Will Brits shun trains?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Isabel Hardman.
Produced by Max Jeffery.
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| 0:17.1 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots and a Happy New Year to all our listeners. I'm James Heal |
| 0:21.4 | and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Isabelle Hardman. We're discussing the rail strikes, |
| 0:26.7 | Leo Varadka's comments and Prince Harry's interview but let's start with talking about the |
| 0:30.6 | industrial action and Fraser the first edition posts four sides. Tell us what's happening this week |
| 0:35.5 | with the rail unions going on strike. Well if I was James Versailles getting my feet under the |
| 0:40.2 | desk as political secretary number 10 I probably want you to resign right now when you look at |
| 0:45.2 | these are a pretty full on it's funny when James was political editor he wrote article after article |
| 0:50.4 | about a miserable winter it was going to be and he was right as he'll be now be finding out |
| 0:54.8 | first hand. So you've got today 40,000 network rail staff and 14 of the train companies |
| 1:01.7 | have got strikes going on no trains in the central London and they were offered 9% over two years |
| 1:10.3 | it turned it down and then on Thursday we've got as left the train driver strikes but there is |
| 1:16.1 | sort of sign that it's very difficult to tell by the way when you're looking at these things |
| 1:21.3 | which way the conflicts are going but there is some indication that the government is holding firm |
| 1:27.6 | we're really soon next strategy from the get go was not to get involved so he would be saying look |
| 1:33.0 | is there anything to do with government this is between network rail the company and its workers |
| 1:39.2 | we're not going to get involved the same thing is true with the train companies they're represented |
| 1:43.7 | by the rail delivery group not the government and all the time the unions will be trying to drag |
| 1:48.0 | the ministers into it and here we are now on the 3rd of January and Rusty's student that has |
| 1:54.1 | yet to be dragged into it so if his objective was to stay out then that is working and I don't |
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