Fresh rail strikes are on the horizon as the prime minister backed plans to close ticket offices.
More walkouts could be called for late July. An RMT spokesperson said the union would “evaluate and look to the next phase of the campaign”.
Boris Johnson said that to justify the money spent on the railways, including the £96bn spent on the rail investment plan, “the travelling public and the taxpayer are going to want to see reform and improvement in the way the railways run” and there could not be “business as usual”.
He told ITV News: “I can’t responsibly tell them that we are just going to continue with business as usual, with the same old systems of ticket offices that are barely used or sell one ticket every hour.”
