for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer. there have been rolling, sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner, to a large extent. and i think that s predicated on the idea of setting precedents for public sector. we ve seen the nurses, ambulance drivers, many civil servants in dispute along similar lines. people aren t being paid enough in this society at the moment and many public sector workers have had long term pay cuts measured against any measure of inflation, so there s some catch up to be done, and that makes it harder because the government wants to be
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prime in three months, i thought it would slow down but it has got more chaotic. ~ , ., ., ., , ., chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes how chaotic. when you are in opposition, that slightly changes how you - that slightly changes how you picture yourself because you are pitching as the personality of the tory leader of the day. it was very noticeable at the beginning of pmqs keir starmer, and i thought he was sending a message to his own party as well as to the country, congratulated rishi sunak as the first british asian to become prime minister. i first british asian to become prime minister. ~ ., first british asian to become prime minister. ~ ., , , minister. i think the whole country, then it was minister. i think the whole country, then it was diwali minister. i think the whole country, then it was diwali as minister. i think
i am going to break the number one rule of making news. not a huge amount has happened today, but that in itself is news. it is certainly a change. my feeling on day three of the rishi sunak era is thatjust, the thing is that we re talking about feel much more normal already, like classic politics. and i think they will look far as mission, not accomplished, but the start of the project is how they want it to be, which is, to use the line from michael gove, the new levelling secretary, boring is back. and just thinking of it in news terms, we have spent, those of us here at westminster, running around like mad things for quite a while, and today, i was on the radio briefly this morning but that was it because there has not really been any news here. and it has gone from gale force to the most gentle of breezes. and yet there are still things happening. so, today, the suella braverman reappointment controversy rumbles on. with the opposition parties trying to keep that alive.