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Only one in five UK train services to run on second consecutive day of strikes

Passengers advised to travel only if necessary on Wednesday, although No 10 and Network Rail optimistic about reaching deal

Published: 5:00 AM

Strikes, elections and Dominic Raab: Rishi Sunak’s headaches to come in 2023

PM has reinstated ‘boring government’ but smooth relations with backbenchers are unlikely to last

Published: 4:47 PM
Unions expected to take legal action against Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike laws

Published: 4:18 PM
Week of rail strikes to cause more travel disruption in UK

Published: 6:00 AM

Guardian Opinion cartoon Nicola Jennings: a bumpy start to 2023 – cartoon

Industrial disputes across multiple sectors present Rishi Sunak with some tough challenges going into the new year

Published: 7:30 PM

Published: 7:30 PM
NHS unions say plans for 2% pay rise next year could mean more strikes

Ministers have asked NHS pay review body to cap increase for 2023-24, below predictions for inflation

Published: 6:00 PM
Ex-Royal Mail boss hits out at board for ‘confrontational path’ on strikes

Rico Back believes postal service’s talks with union have been poorly handled

Published: 1:59 PM
The trusty tarot has revealed the Tories’ future to me

Stewart Lee

At a time of unprecedented political turmoil in the UK, I have been asked to play Nostradamus…

Published: 10:00 AM

Published: 10:00 AM

‘Exhausted, broken, at risk of heart attacks’: UK headteachers quit as cuts push them to the edge

With a strike ballot looming, school leaders say erosion of services for children and families has made their jobs untenable

Published: 3:00 PM
Just nine passengers detained at Heathrow during Border Force strike

Figure compares with 189 during same three days of 2021, but detentions at Manchester airport rose slightly

Published: 7:00 AM

Rail strikes ‘cost UK hospitality sector £1.5bn in December alone’

Industry bodies say figure worse than predicted and expect ‘huge’ losses of businesses and jobs in 2023

Published: 9:23 AM
Inflation, waiting lists, strikes, rail chaos, climate emergency: the 2022 polycrisis

Almost every facet of life in the UK – courts to cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to asylum system – is at breaking point

Published: 8:00 AM

Revealed: the executives who determine public sector pay

Ministers refusing to negotiate on wages say they must follow official review bodies – but who sits on these boards and how accountable are they?

Published: 8:33 PM
Unions holding government to ransom with talks demand, says Ben Wallace

Minister ratchets up hardline stance as he rejects claim government is sabotaging efforts to end strikes

Published: 3:10 PM

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